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M. Ornburn, its Secretary-Treas
urer, acts as Director. This week
he stated that the Department is
now defiii'’'*ly making this out
standing la'.»or-ma:.a^unept* enter
prise an
annual ev nt.
Cleveland is a strong union city
and there are many staunch friends
of lalor among the citizens of
Ohio. There are numerous union
ized industries .throughout the
Cleveland area. In addition to na
tionally-known manufacturing and
tra’n p« rt a i on industries, local
firm., arc taking an active part in
the Show. There are many other
advantages including excellent
hotel accommodations and good
trail-p^rtation which help to make
Ck md “the best location in the
Nation”.
Within 500 miles oi Cleveland
lives more than half- of the popu
lation of the United States and
Canada. It is the sixth city in size
in th» United States. Nearly two
thirds of America’s industrial
wealth is concentrated within the
area of which Cleveland is the
heart. Nine of the Nation’s ten
largest cities are only a few hours
by air from this industrial capital.
The Union Industries Show will
br held in Cleveland’s spacious
Public Auditorium which is excel
lently equipped and has ample
space for exhibit facilities. There
is a total of 260,000 square feet
available in it for industrial ex
po iti'ins. There will be over a run
ning mile of exhibit displays in all
the halls. It is predicted that the
Cleveland Show will break all re
cords for attendance and special
arrangements are being made to
entertain the overflow crowds out
side the auditorium.
“These super-exhibitions were
inaugurated to prove that union
made goods and union services are
the best in the world,” said Mr.
Orrbum. “The chief purpose of the
Si:uw is to encourage American
consumers to purchase Union
made-in-America goods and also
to use Union services. The Union,
Indu’4r* Show combines superb
craftsmanship of A. F. of L. work
ers with creative ingenuity of
management in displays of hi
quality products so popular nmong
American consumers, A real thrill,
awaits you in Cleveland, May 18
22, this year.”
PUBLICITY FORCES APOLOGY
Three Rivers, Tex. (LPA)—Pvt.
Felix Longoria, killed on Luzon,
will be buried at Arlington Nat’l
Cemetery even tho his home town
has apologized to his widow for
refusing to bury the Mexican vet
eran because “whites might ob
ject.” Deploring “unfavorable pub
licity,” Three Rivers Chamber of
Commerce sought to soothe over
the situation, after Sen. Langdon
Johnson had arranged for neburial
at Arlington, but the widow an
nounced last week that, al tho
grateful for the town's change of
heart, the war victim would be in
terred in the national cemetery.
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A MILE OF EXHIBITS AT
'49 UNION LABEL SHOW
i The fourth all-American Federa
tion of Labor exhibition will take
place next May in Cleveland, Ohio.
At Cincinnati and St. Louis that
unique event was known as the A.
F. of L. Union Label and Indus
trial Exhibition. Last year at Mil
waukee the name was changed to
Union Industries Show wnich is
now its official title. It is sponsor
ad by the Union Label Trades De
rrtment of the A. F. of L. and
AFL To Mobilize
Against State
Anti-Union Laws
Washington (LPA)—AFL unions
and their political leagues in 15
states were mobilizing this week
to press for the repeal of “little
Taft-Hartley laws.” They’ll have
the utmost support from national
AFL and LLPE.
The AFL’s national legislative
council, at its first meeting last
wi k, called upon AFL unions to
mobilize their political strength for
the repeal of state “little T-H
laws.”
This was the AFL’s fighting re
action to the Supreme Court de
cision which upheld the anti-closed
shop provisions of three state anti
union statutes.
“The Supreme Court’s decision
will encourage the enemies of la
bor in all states to seek the enact
ment of little Taft-Hartley laws,”
AFL President William Green said.
“We’ll get rid of the federal law,
and then find ourselves confronted
with its provisions in the various
states,” he warned.
Green explained that altho the
repeal of Taft-Hartley itself would
free workers in interstate com
merce from the provisions of anti
union state laws, still millions of
workers who don’t work on goods
which go into interstate commerce
would suffer.
Those anti-closed shop laws
“transgress upon the freedom of
workers to negotiate satisfactory
terms and conditions of labor,”
Green declared. Labor doesn’t want
governmental aid to secure union
security contracts, he pointed out,
but only asks freedom to obtain
them thru collective bargaining.
The AFL chieftain cited the fact
that in California and other states
lawyers have secured the enact
ment of bills which require attor
neys to join the lawyers’ unions—
the bar associations.
LLPE Director Joseph Keenan
promised a “vigorous educational
and political campaign in every
state in the union to place in the
legislatures men who are committ
ed to the repeal of all anti-labor
state laws.”
Keenan charged that the Sup
reme Court decision leaves unions
open to infiltration by “company
stooges and Communist trouble
makers.” He warned that “the
trade union movement will be
strong only when we have elected
at all levels of government public
office holders friendly to the inter
ests of the majority of our people.
No union is strong when its mem
bers are forced to work with scabs i
and free riders.”
Altho concentrating its fight to
reverse the Supreme Court decis
ion into political action against the
anti-labor laws which the Court up
held, the AFL will continue to
fight these laws in the courts,
Green declared.
AFL lawyer Herbert Thatcher
said that he favors
Justice Wiley Rutlodge’s
that if the state laws
against union men who
work with “free riders"
tion should be reopened.
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Transit Workers
Win Wage Boost
Newark (LPA)—In a $2,000,(1(H)
decision the New Jersey state arbi
tration board last week awarded
6400 A FI. transit workers a 15'.c
hourly pay boost, setting the high
est bus operators* wage standard
in the New York-New Jersey
Pennsylvania area. The union is
the Amalgamated Ass’n Street,
Electric Railway & Motor Coach
Employes-AFL.
More than $1,(8)0,000 was paid
Imre, diately to the employes of tho
Public Service .Companies, one of
the largest bus companies in the
world, which operates in New Jer
sey, with lines running into NY
and Pa. Payment of 13c of the
15'iic raise was made retroactive
to July 1.
The award culminates nine
months of bargaining by the un
ion. Talks for a new contract began
last April, two months before an
(fid agreement expired.
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Meanwhile, the representatives
of the 100,000 large farm operators
who produce over half the nation’s
crops have submitted proposals to
abolish the contract and substitute
in its place a permit system where
by any Mexican worker appearing
on the border will be given an entry
card which would permit him to
stay in the United States to en
gage in farm work.
Another alternative the growers
submitted is for a joint commission
to regulate the traffic of farm la
bor across the border. They also
Murray Asserts
Idea Of 'Human
New York (LPA)—Replying to
General Electric Co. President
Charles E. Wilson, President Philip
Murray last week denied the
charge that the CIO’s legislative
program is “nakedly socialistic.”
Murray’s reply was in an ad
dress read for him at a dinner
sponsored by Labor & Nation mag
azine.
Instead, ho asserted, “Labor in
America seeks the quickest possi
ble perfection of what Justice Wil
liam O. Douglas of the Supreme
Court at the recent convention so
brilliantly defined as ’the human
welfare state.’
“The human-welfare state pre
serves the best of our American
traditions,” Murray pointed out.
“It promotes and expands the basic
concepts of human liberty. It en
courages the enterprise system
which has helped make this nation
great.
The labor decision to seek Sena
tor Ferguson’s expulsion was taken
by unanimous vote and revealed by
the Detroit Labor News, official
organ of the Detroit A FL unicns.
The charges parallel in large part
those contained in the petition of
Frank E. Hook, who was defeated
by Senator Ferguson last Novem
ber, for a Senate investigation and
a recount of the ballots.
The labor federation declared
that Ferguson had violated the
DEAD AWAIT SETTLEMENT
New York (LPA)—Burial sched
ules for Calvary Church cemetery
were upset by a 250-man walkout
by United Cemetery Workers last
week when tho union struck for a
live day week and a three week
vacation after 15 instead of 20
years’ service. New contract nego
tiations have been underway since
December, with management re
jecting all demands, and offering
wage readjustments on a cost-of
living basis. Until settlement of the
strike only temporary burials are
permitted.
Some people refuse to answer
any question until they’ve asked
one themselves, usually, "Why,”
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U. S.-Mexico Plan For Importing
Farm Workers In Negotiation
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).
The U. S- State Department will
begin negotiations with Mexico this
month for a new agreement where
by agricultural labor may be im
ported into the United States. The
negotiators will have before them
proposals made by the National
Farm Labor Union which will call
for a joint committee composed of
labor, employer and government
representatives to determine the
need in any area and to set pre
vailing wage rates. Other proposals
worked out jointly with Mexican
agricultural unions for the protec
tion of foreign workers have also
been submitted.
Labor Supports
Welfare State*
“The human-welfare state seeks
earnestly to protect its citizens
from fear, from want, from human
degradation. It is not a patern
alistic government it does not rob
its citizens of initiative, or bind
them in slavery to an all-powerful
dictatorship.
“The human-welfare state does
—and must—work for its citizens.
It is not—and it must not become
—an overpowering machine which
sacrifices the liberty of the peo
ple in return for security or re
forms.
“We in American labor value be
yond &I1 else the rights and the
dignity of the individual. We in
American labor will fight totalitar
ianism, from the right or from the
left. We regard the human-welfare
state as America’s middle way. It
should be neither right nor left,
but liberal, progressive, open
minded and daring.”
Detroit Unions Charge Ferguson
Disqualified To Serve As Senator
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).
The Detroit and Wayne County
Federation of Labor has petitioned
the Treasury and Justice depart
ments and the
on Elections
charges which
qualify Homer
can of Michigan, to serve as U. S.
Senator.
Senate .Committee
•to investigate 4
it is asserted dis
Ferguson, Republi-
state constitution in 1942 by run-|
ning for his first term in the Sen
ate without resigning from his post
as circuit judge and asserted ho
had violate! the canons of judicial
ethics of the American Bar Asso
ciation for the same reason.
The petition accused the senator
of receiving campaign funds which
had been contributed illegally by
certain Michigan automobile deal
ers. It was charged the senator hail
“full knowledge” of the nature of
the procedure involved.
Ferguson also was accused of
failure to make a proper account
ing to the board of auditors of
Wayne County as to some $163,C6O
entrusted to him while, as a circuit
judge, he was conducting a one
man grand jury investigation in
Michigan.
NJ Unions Offered Programs
New Brunswick, NJ (LPA)—A
“package” educational program,
complete with a motion picture, a
discussion leader, the projection
equipment and mimeographed dis
cussion outlines, is offered to New
Jersey unions by the Institute of
Labor-Management Relations at
Rutgers University. The state uni
versity’s institute offers the pro
grams on topics bearing on the
20th century industrial world, 2Cth
century community living and rela
tions between workers and their
community.
Just because he was nice yester
day, women and dogs expect a man
to be nice today*
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Illegal Traffic Charged
“The District Director of Im
migration, Grover Wilmoth of El
Paso, let down the bars while Don
Larin, head of the Farm Place
ment Division of the U. S. Employ
ment Service, directed the illegal
traffic across the border. Once
across the border the illegal aliens
were loaded into trucks like cattle
and whisked away to the Missis
sippi Delta cotton fields and Colo
rado sugar beet fields.”
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NATION’S NEXT BUDGET?—Here’s what it will cost to carry out President Truman’s program
for the federal government, and where he wants .Congress’to get the money. It will be up to Congress to
levy new taxes on corporations and people earning over $6C00 to meet this level of spending.
demand representation for “Users
of Foreign Labor” on the official
negotiating committee. They were
opposed to representation of the
American worker, the National
Farm Labor Union said at its head-,
quarters here. The union went on
to say:
“The new negotiations starting
in January follow the abrogation
of an international agreement |ast‘
year by Mexico. The Mexican gov
ernment cancelled its contract
when U. S. officials permitted
thousands of Mexicans to enter the
United States in violation of im
migration laws and international
commitments. The invasion of the
United States was inspired by cot
ton and beet growers.
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Congress Told
Housing Bills
Mot Adequate
Washington (LPA)—None of the
housing bills introduced in the first
week of Congress are wide enough
in scope to implement the kind of
housing program proposed by the
organized labor movement. And
none of the bills meets the stand
ards set in President Truman’s
messages to Congress.
The version of the old Taft-El
lender-Wagner bill introduced in
the first week of the session by
eight Democratic Senators, as well
as another bill of smaller scope
sponsored by Republican Senators
Taft, Ives and Flanders, both are
inadequate, union officials insist.
“They are hastily drawn, and
doubtless will be restudied and
undergo considerable overhauling
before any housing measure comes
out of committee,” said a CIO
housing official. “They don’t in any
w’ay meet the needs, outlined by
President Truman in his speech,
for bringing down the costs of con
struction so that housing can be
built at reasonable costs.”
Chairman Harry C. Bates of the
AFL’s Housing Committee indicat
ed that even President Truman’s
proposals did not meet the pro
gram outlined by the AFL at its
convention last fall. In a memo to
Truman, Bates said that “The ter
rific inflation in the prices of new
homes has convinced us that pri
mary emphasis must now be plac
ed upon,.the construction of rental
housing. It is both grossly unfair
nnd economically unsound to force
low-income and moderate income
families to purchase homes at to
day’s astronomical prices.”
Bates pointed out that the AFL
convention had urged Congress to
authorize building a minimum of
1,000,000 units of public low rent
housing in the next five years.
President Truman urged Congress
to authorize that number in seven
years. The old TEW bill called for
600,000 in five years.
Bates also urged President Tru
man to see that the 50% of the
nation’s families with incomes be
tween $2000 and $5000 a year be
provided for in any new housing
proposals by the Administration.
“Large-scale construction of mutu
al and rental housing within the
means of these families can only
be achieved by authorization for
long-term, low-interest loans'made
directly by the federal government
to public agencies, cooperatives,
nonprofit and limited dividend cor
porations, and any private builders
who will conform to the rent
schedules established under this
program.”
GOP Faithful
(Continued From Page One)
well as liberal Republicans.
One important figure on the
Nat’l Committee, Rep. Clarence
Brown, Taft’s principal lieutenant
and Ohio member of the Commit
tee proclaimed last week that the
job of setting Republican policy be
tween conventions remains with
the party delegation in Congress.
These elected Republicans are
the “only ones who have a legal,
constitutional or moral obligation
to make policy” the Ohioan declar
ed.
If, however, the Nat’l Committee
at its late January meeting in
Omaha, Nebr., decides to call a
rank-and-file conference the Scott
and Taft forces will unite to re
affirm GOP adherence to tho
party’s 80th Congress policies, the
statements of the two leaders in
dicate.
Meanwhile, Taft and Dewey sup
porters continue to haggle over
whether it was Taft’s Congression
al policies or Dewey’s no-policy
speeches in the campaign which
dashed the GOP’s victory hopes.
Every man ought to arrange his
financial affairs so he can survive
till the next payday, at least.
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Truman’s Speech
Applauded By
British Labor
By DAVID C. WILLIAMS
London (LPA) British labor
gave President Truman’s program
as warm a welcome as have Am
erican trade unionists.
Whitelaw, cartoonist for the La
bor party’s and Trades Union Con
gress’ official newspaper, tjie Daily
Herald, shows the President busy
making his “fair deal.” The apes
he js putting on the table are “Un
ion Rights,” “Fair Wages,” “Health
Service,” and “Tax on Rich.” The
other players at the table., “Pro
fiteer,” “Big Business,” and “US
Reactionaries,” are throwing up
their hands in despair.
In its lead editorial the Daily
Herald takes particular delight in
the President’s proposal to auth
orize construction of steel plants
if action by private industry fails
to meet America’s needs. Reports
of steel shortages in the US have
helped to drive home the Labor
party’s case for the public owner
ship of Britain’s iron and steel in
dustry. Truman’s state of the un
ion message will be quoted in many
British Labor speeches.
The President’s program was
welcomed too in the liberal press.
“It looks,” said the famed Man
chester Guardian. “Farther to the
left than any President’s before
him.”
declared
able for
ed the
Truman
New Deal in scope and political
daring.”
The London News-Chronicle.
that it will be “memor
its bold radicalism.” Add-
London Star: “President
has surpassed Roosevelt’s
One correspondent wrote: “Pres
ident Roosevelt carried thru the
New Deal reforms on a wave of un
employment and adversity. Pres
ident Truman has the harder task
of working out his Newer Deal at
a time when all but a minority of
Americans are enjoying great pros
perity. But this is the direction of
the tide. The world is moving his
way. Sooner or later what he wants
will be accomplished.”
N.Y. Dispute End
(Continued From Page One)
special mediator in the tugboat dis
pute. The employers’ committee
was divided nine-to-eight against
accepting Local 383’s scaled-down
proposals.
Finally agreement was reached
on a 12% base pay increase for
harbor craft workers, plus better
overtime pay. Some .contract de
tails remain to be worked out, but
acceptance by the port workers is
expected in view of the favorable
recommendation by Capt. William
J. Bradley, local president.
yOU know why electricity Is the best
1 to light a home, h's dependable, odorless,
safe and dean,
It's the smart way to COOK, too—and for tho
same reasons. Moro and more woman aro
finding that out ovary day.
Yes, electricity is tho cleanest source of hoot
in all tho world. And an electric range is tho
finest cocking device over invented. But don't
tako our word for ill Ask any professional chef
who's over used one. Ask any housewife who
knows tho thrift, tho fiick-a»switch convenience,
of a modern electric range. Ask youruH
"Why should I be without one?"
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Supreme Cour*
Defaults On
T-H Test Case
Washington (LPA)—Two Sup
reme Court actions this week
brought home the fact that labor
must look to its own political and
legislative work, and not to the
courts, to rid itself of repressive
legislation.
The highest court refused to
hear an appeal from the Foremen’s
Ass’n of America against the Taft
Hartley denial of bargaining rights
protection to supervisors.
FAA had appealed on the
grounds that the denial is uncon
stitutional since it deprives fore
men of access to the NLRB, “the
only machinery available” to pro
tect workers against anti-union em
ployers.
By refusing to hear the appeal,
the Supreme Court, in effect, sus
tained the judgement of a lower
court which upheld Taft-Hartley.
The case involved the dismissal
by the Budd Manufacturing Co. of
a foreman who pursued union
activities. Even the fact that die
union foreman was fired while the
Wagner act, which extended union
rights to foremen, was in effect,
didn’t help him. It’s Taft-Hartley
that sets the standards now, the
courts have held.
Then the court permitted the
Int’l Brotherhood of Teamsters
AFL to withdraw a suit which it
had filed against Tennessee’s “little
Taft-Hartley” law. Union lawyers
asked permission to drop their
challenge to the closed shop ban
in light of the court’s ruling of the
previous week upholding similar
laws in Arizona, Nebraska and
North Carolina.
The judges, apparently, agreed
that there’s no point to carrying
any more state anti-labor law tests
on this point into the courts now.
President's Steel
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too, to meet the southwest’s grow
ing needs.
Complaining about the costs of
steel for we southwest oil industry
they said that they told the Pres
ident “our plans are in complete
accord with your own idea of ex
panding steel production in the na
tion.”
Most steel industry spokesmen
this week, however, are thinking
more about their lobby’s invasion
of Washington on Jan. 24. That’s
when a Senate committee begins
hearjngs on a bill to amend the
anti-trust laws, and permit the
steelmakers to resume basing point
pricing.
By the time a man collects his
thoughts, hg’s too tired to write
them down.
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Thursday, January 20, 1949
Labor Committee
Reported Keeping
Anti-Union Gang
Washington (LPA)—Union re
.presentativas in Washington were
amazed last weerf by a report that
two notorious Taft-Hartleyites are
being retained on the staff of the
Senate Labor Committee. They are
Philip R. Rodgers, who helped steer
the Taft-Hartley law thru the Sen
ate committee in the 8Cth Congress,
and Tom Shroyer, who has been
general counsel of the notorious
joint congressional T-H “white
wash” committee on labor-manage
ment relations.
Altho Chairman Elbert Thomas
(D, Utah) refused to comment on
the committee’s personnel plans,
there is strong reason to believe
that Rodgers, who was committee
clerk under the Taft regime will
be kept on as assistant clerk. Earl
B. Wixcey, who was assistant to
Rodgers, not himself a Taft-Hart
leyite, is slated to be clerk.
Shroyer, who was principal
draftsman of the old Ball commit
tee’s reports “white washing” Taft
Hartley, has been promoting him
self for a spot on the Senate La
bor Committee staff too. Sen.
Thomas wants to abandon the
Joint Committee on Labor-Manage
ment Relations, which would leave
Shroyer without a job. Other Dem
ocratic Senators, however, favor
keeping a revamped Joint Commit-f
tee in operation at least until Taft
Hartley is repealed to counter the
anti-union propaganda that the
Ball-dominated group put out.
A former NLRB lawyer, Shroyer
is a protege of Gerald Reilly, one
time NLRB member, now attorney
for newspaper publishers attempt
ing to smash the Int’l Typographic
al Union-AFL. As special consult
ant to Sen. Robert A. Taft (R,
Ohio), in the early days of the
80th Congress, Reilly was one of
the principal architects of Taft
Hartley, and mentor to both Rodg
ers and Shroyer.
Nearly all bottlenecks are the re
sult of somebody’s refusal to think
or decide at the time he was sup
posed to.
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