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MEMBER
INTERNATIONAL LABOR
NEWS SERVICE
VOL XLIII, NO. 41
President Truman Invokes
Taft-Hartley Law Against
Mmers,Names Committee
Washington (LPA)—President Truman invoked the national emer
gency provisions of the Taft-Hartley act in the eight-month coal dispute
Feb. 6 by naming a three-man panel to investigate and report back to
him Feb. 13.
Whether he would seek an injunction against the United Mine
Workers depends on his decision when the board reports. An injunction
request is not compulsory.
The President acted just before noon when it became apparent that
a full-fledged strike of soft coal miners was on. Forty-eight hours
earlier President John L. Lewis had turned down Truman’s proposal
that the miners, most of whom^_
were working three-day weeks, re-1
sume full production for 70 days
while a non-Taft-Hartley board
looked into the situation. Soft coal
operators accepted the proposal.
As in last year’s steel dispute,
neither side would have been bound
by the fact-finders’ conclusions.
Chairman of the panel appointed
under the Taft-Hartley act is David
L. Cole of Paterson, N. J., who sat
on a similar board investigating
coal negotiations in 1948 and who
also was one of the fact-finders in
steel last summer William W.
Wirtz, professor of law at North
western University and one-time
chairman of the Wage Stabilization
Board and John Dunlop, professor
of economics at Harvard and im
partial chairman of the arbitration
machinery established by the AFL
building trades and building con
tractors.
Meanwhile, a federal judge was
expected to act any moment on a
request by General Counsel Robert
N. Denham of the Nat’l Labor Re
lations Board for a writ restrain
ing the Mine Workers from alleg
edly unfair labor practices, includ
ing the three-day week and other
devices by which the NLRB coun
sel claimed the union was trying to
obtain an illegal contract. Den
ham’s action was taken at the re
quest of about 90 per cent of the
soft coal industry. An NLRB trial
examiner was scheduled to open
separate hearings Feb. 4 oa.-tba
unfair practices charges i l^e
against the UMW and Lewis.
Truman made his original pro
$bsal the day before Lewis was
scheduled to meet with northern
and western operators for the first
time since last fall. The subse
quent parleys broke down the
morning of the second day when
the operators walked out. Lewis
agreed to attend the conference
only after the operators said they
would drop all stipulations. How
ever, when they reached the bar
gaining table, they immediately
re-imposed four conditions which
they insisted the UMW meet be
fore negotiations begin. To many
it had seemed that the operators
might have been readier to bargain
had the President waited.
Main demands of the UMW are
a wage boost of 95 cents a day, and
an increase of 15 cents per ton in
the royalty the operators pay into
the UMW’s famed welfare fund.
The UMW reports that 1700 mines
with an annual capacity of 40,000,
000 tons have met the terms.
Evansville Potter Has
Injured Optic Removed
Evansville, Ind.—As a result of
a recent injury, Bro. John Schutz
recently was a patient in St. Mary’s
Hospital for the removal of his
right eye.
The members of Local Union 5
were sorry to learn of Bro. Schutz’s
misfortune and wish him a speedy
recovery in his convalesence at
home. —O.C. 5
Labor Newspaper
Sheet Into Runnint
Denver, Colo. (LPA)—The amaz
ing spectacle of two “great”.dailies
being scooped on a week-old story
by a weekly labor paper has joUr*
nalistic circles in an uproar here
The Denver Post and the Rocky
Mountain News both failed to
carry a line on the sensational
FTC report on business profits for
1949 as compared to 1940. The
Colorado Labor Advocate, AFL
weekly for Denver and Colorado,
got the story from Labor Press
^Association and spread it across
’page 1 with a banner headline,
“PRESS FAILS ON BIG PROFIT
STORY.” The Advocate printed all
the details of the story which had
been ignored five days before by
the commercial press, noting in the
story that it had been so ignored.
The managing editor of the Post,
as soon as the Advocate story was
brought to his attention, proceed
ed to blast all three of his wire
services. After a series of tele
grams to AP, UP and INS, asking
why they hadn’t filed the story,
he discovered that AP and UP had
carried the story. Queried by Al
Magnuson, editor of the Advocate,
the Post news chief declared the
Auto Workers And
Goodyear Agree
On Pension Plan
Akron (LPA) The Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Co. and the United
Rubber Workers have agreed on
non-contributory pensions of at
least $100 a month for workers at
65 with 25 years’ service. Affected
are 24,000 employes in 10 plants in
9 states. If social security benefits
are increased, as expected, the pen
sions will be higher, as the com
pany will add one-half of the in
crease to the pension.
If, on retirement, an employe’s
total earnings exceed $120,000, he
will get, as pension, one per cent
annually for life. (On total earnings
of $130,000, for example, an em
ploye would get $1300 annually,
rather than the $1200, which is at
$100 a month.)
The agreement, effective April
1, expires Feb. 1, 1951, and is sub
ject to reopening on wages on 30
days’ notice. Other features: com
pany pays entire cost of present
group insurance, now partly paid
by employes employes with less
than 25 years’ service but more
than 15 will get proportionately
smaller pensions employes perm
disabled, with 15 years’
service, will get at least $50 a
month.
Goodyf&r has 13,500 workers in
Akron. Other plants are at Los
Angeles, Topeka, Gadsden, Ala.,
New Bedford, Mass., Muncie, Ind.,
Jackson, Mich., St. Mary’s, Ohio,
Windsor, Vt., and Lincoln, Neb.
Baltimore Group
Invite Wrong Man
Baltimore (LPA)—The Balti
more City Medical Society, invited
Frank J. Bender, president of the
Maryland and District of Columbia
Industrial Union Council, to serve
on a citizen’s Committee to fight
President Truman’s health insur
ance program. They asked him to
help “alert all voters to the dang
ers inherent in the proposed Na
tional Compulsory Health Insur
ance Plan and in all phases of so
cialized medicine.”
Bender wrote back, rejecting the
invitation. He said he had searched
the bill in vain for the dangers
pointed out by the medical society.
He pointed out that under the pro
posal, the patient would have com
plete freedom to accept or reject
patients, or to serve in the pro
gram or not. He presented a mass
of data showing the national cost
of ill health and the need for bet
ter distribution of medical care. He
concluded:
“I would be extremely happy to
serve with you on a committee to
bring to the attention of our citiz
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Needles Denver
I FTC Report
story had not been printed because
“that was the day the big fire
broke at Colorado Springs,” and
there wasn’t room for the FTC re
port.
However a check of that issue of
the Post shows that although they
didn’t have space for the FTC re
ports, they had plenty of room for
the usual stories of rape, murder
and sin. Nevertheless, on Friday,
the day after the Advocate made
its accusations, the Post changed
the dateline on the week-old AP
story and handled it as if it had
just broken. It was seven inches
long and appeared on page 5. Of
course, the guts had been removed
and it merely stated that profits
were up over pre-war. (The real
point of the story was that, where
as before the war big business was
happy with profits of 10 per cent,
in 1948 it was grabbing 20 per cent,
and still shrieking that taxes were
killing business. The second point
was that the nearer an industry
was to monopolizing its field, the
greater its profit
Neither point was
Post story.)
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margin was.
made in the
President Names
Paul Styles To
Labor Board Post
Washington (LPA) President
Truman has named Paul H. Styles
to the Nat’l Labor Relations Board
to succeed J. Copeland Gray, whose
term expired in December. Truman
sent Styles’ name to the Senate
Feb. 2 for confirmation. Gray, the
board’s most reactionary member,
had been repeatedly under fire
from all quarters of organized
labor.
Styles, director since March 1945
of the NLRB 10th region with
headquarters at Atlanta, is 42. He
has a rich personal knowledge of
labor and its problems, especially
in the south. His first job, was as a
printer’s apprentice at 11. While in
his teens he spent four years in an
Alabama cotton mill. He worked
as a typesetter, pressman, reporter
and editor from 1928 to 1937. From
1933 to 1937 he was president
the Huntsville, Ala., Trades
Labor Council-AFL. Huntsville
his legal residence.
Brown joined the union in 1916
while working for a telephone com
pany in his native Chicago. Later
he became chief electrician for
Robert White & Co. in the same
city.
An attorney, and a member of
the Wisconsin and Milwaukee bars,
Brown received his law degree
from the University of Chicago in
1927. From 1935 through 1938 he
was a member of the University of
Wisconsin Boqrd of Regents. He
came back to the IBEW in 1930,
serving as a special representative.
From 1937 to 1940 he was a mem
ber of the IBEW executive board.
In 1943, the late President
Roosevelt named Brown to the
Nat’l Defense Mediation Board.
That year, with other labor lead
ers, he made a good will trip
through South America under the
sponsorship of the Committee on
Inter-American Affairs. In 1946,
he was a delegate to the British
Trades Union Congress. Brown
was reported to be one of the four
top labor men to be informed of
the atomic bomb project in 1944.
Brown maintained homes in
Washington and Germantown, Wis.
From 1946 until his death, he prac
ticed law in both Wisconsin and the
capital. He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Jean E. Duffy Brown, and a
brother, Henry, of Chicago.
Labor Leader Says
Slow Down Franco
Washington (LPA) Dictator
Franco “is attempting to deceive
the outside world when he claims
there is no opposition to his regime
within Spain,” President Trifon
Gomez of the Spanish Confedera
tion of Labor told a press confer
ence here.
Gomez declared that information
“gathered in all circles from ex
treme right to extreme left” indi
cated that Spaniards qould resolve
their internal problems peacefully
and without fear that Franco’s Fas
cism would be replaced by Com
munism, provided the world’s dem
ocratic nations maintain the policy
embodied in the United Nations
resolution of 1946 under which UN
members withdrew
dors from Madrid.
their ambassa-
thought slow
workers forced
Gomez said he
downs by Spanish
a breakdown recently in Spain’s
economic relations with Dictator
Peron of Argentina. The workers
made it imposible for Franco to
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He became an NLRB field exam
iner in 1937, after serving as co
chairman of the industrial commit
tee of the Huntsville Chamber of
Commerce. Sen. John Sparkman
(D, Ala.) was president of the
chamber at the time.
In 1943, Styles became assistant
director of disputes of the Region
al War Labor Board, in Atlanta. He
subsequently moved up to be dir
ector of disputes and vice-chairman
of the regional body, representing
the public on a three-man panel.
As NLRB regional director in
Atlanta, Styles was the agency’s
chief officer in an area which in
cluded Georgia, South Carolina,
Florida, Alabama and Tennessee.
E. J. Brown Dies
Former Head Of
Electrical Workers
Washington (LPA)—Edward J.
Brown, 1940-1946 president of the
Int’l Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers-AFL, died in George
Washington University Hospital
here Jan. 31 after a kidney opera
tion. He was 55.
(Lljc Herald
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EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1950
AFL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL—Meeting at Miami Beach, Fla., AFL
top command draws battle lines for 1950 political campaign. Left to
right, Secretary Treasurer George Meany, President William Green,
9 nd William Hutcheson, Carpenteis’ chief. The Council went on record
for the middle-income housing bill.
W. Keith McAfee Killed In
Airplane Crash In Florida
Redlands, Calif.-r-W. Keith Me-* __________
Afee, chairman of the board of
directors of the Universal-Rundle
Corp, and past president of the
American Ceramic Society was
killed in an airplane crash near
Quincy, Fla. on Feb. 2.
Mr. McAfee was widely known
throughout the trade and held in
the highest esteem by members of
the Brotherhood. Flying his own
plane he had visited New Castle,
Pa. earlier in the week and flew
back to Boca Raton, Fla. for a
business appointment. He was re
turning. to Redlands when the
plane crashed, killing him instant
ly.
Bom in Pittsburgh, Mr. McAfee
attended Allegheny Preparatory
College and in 1915 was graduated
from
vania
the University of Pennsyl
as an electrical engineer,
first job was with Westing
Manufacturing Co. as a de
His
house
sign engineer. In 1920 he went
with the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
and two years later became an en
gineer for the Universal Sanitary
Manufacturing Co. at New CartJe.
Along with his duties at Universal,
he was named vice president and
general manager of the Cambridge
Sanitary Manufacturing
1923.
Co. in
to Uni
pro mot
general
Six years after going
versal, Mr. McAfee was
ed to vice-president and
manager. Later, he became the
president and after the organiza
tion of Universal-Rundle he was
made chairman of the board.
Plants are located at New Castle,
Camden, N. J., and Redlands. He
moved from New Castle to Cali
fornia about two years ago.
Mr. McAfee was president of the
American Ceramic Society in 1934.
He also was a member of the board
of directors of the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Kath
erine Kirk McAfee, formerly of
New Castle and two sons. Burial
was made in New Castle.
Peace Talk Moves
Made In Walkout
At Chrysler Corp.
Detroit (LPA) Federal and
state mediators announced that
negotiations may be resumed next
week between Chrysler Corp, and
United Auto Workers. Negotia
tions were broken off Jan. 25 when
the UAW called out 89,000 Chry
sler ^workers because the company
offer on pensions was unsatisfac
tory.
Walter Reuther, UAW president,
branded tjie newspaper advertise
ments by Chrysler both misleading
and confusing, and pointed out that
the union is perfectly willing to ac
cept a five-year contract for a pen
sion plan, if the plan is sound
what the union is unwilling to do
is to freeze all other conditions, ex
cept wages, for five years. Reuth
er declared it is evident that Chry
sler “for reasons best known to it
self did not want a settlement on
the equities and facts.”
The Detroit Labor News, an AFL
paper, in a 2-col. box on the front
page of its current issue, said the
strike “is the result of the stub
born attitude df the absentee own
ers of the Chrysler Corp, who re
gard Detroit as a corral for cheap
labor and nothing more.” The
article assailed the “obstinacy” of
the corporation and “its callous dis
regard” of the community’s wel
fare, and said that is the price De
troit pays for absentee ownership
of the third largest manufacturing
corporation in the country. “This
strike could have been avoided had
the management really wanted to
avoid it,” the paper said.
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Any Not Working
Is Too Much
Committee Says
Washington (LPA) Anything
less than full employment for
every man and woman willing and
able to work is a “serious” condi
tion. That is the conclusion of a
study made by a special subcom
mittee of the Joint Congressional
Economic Committee, based in
large part on replies to questions
put to the AFL, CIO and the Sec
retaries of Commerce and Labor.
Now, says the report, is as good a
time as any to take nationwide
steps to keep joblessness as brief
and as infrequent as possible.
Especially in view of the “cold
war”, the subcommittee “views
anything notably short of full em
ployment and of more than temp
orary duration as serious.” The
group was headed by Edward J.
Hart (D, N. J.) and included Sen.
Francis Myers (D, Pa.), Sen.
Arthur V. Watkins (R, Utah), and
Reps. Walter B. Huber (D, Ohio)
and Christian B. Herter (R, Miss.).
The committee made three pro
posals, all built on the assumption
in -the Employment Act of 1946,
that the remedy for unemployment
“is a dynamic expanding national
economy.”
First, Congress should find but
more about who and what are the
unemployed. Both the CIO and
AFL point out that until definite
data, now unavailable, is gathered,
it is hard to say that 2 million or
3 million unemployed is “danger
ous.”
Second," to get at the problem of
“distressed areas”, there is need of
“further study in the field of reg
ional development. New England is
currently examining such factors
as may be hindering its rate of
development. Of importance to the
country as a whole, however, is the
further development of the other
great regions, particularly those
which are predominantly agricul
tural. Opportunities for additional
river-basin agencies for multiple
purpose river development, for
flood control and reclamation,
should not be overlooked.”
A whole series of actions to ex
pand the ability of people to pur
chase more goods and services,
should be undertaken by the feder
al government, the Congressional
group urges. Two other subcom
mittees are now working on these
problems—how to increase the con-j
suming and productive power of
the 10 million families with in
comes under $2000, and how to
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PHONE STRIKE POSTPONED
—Joseph A. Beirne, president of
the Communications Workers, an
nouncing the union postponed a
strike on the the Bell System tells
federal mediators the union is will
ing to arbitrate. Bell has refused
all offers of arbitration.
Brotherhood Chief
Stresses Need For
Fine Workmanship
Trenton, N. J.—Local Union 35
has had many problems and griev
ances over the past few months,
chiefly in regards to delinquent
and suspended members. Our pro
blems gained such momentum that
we appealed to our national head
for assistance,
as
In two meetings with manage
ment, President Duffy accomplili
ed more for us than we were able
to do in several meetings. We ap
preciate the visit from our nation
al head and in our humble manner
for such service President Duffy
along with Vice President Wheat
ley and the officers of Local 35
were our guests at a dinner which
I am sure was enjoyed by all who
attended it.
In the evening Bro. Duffy at
tended our regular meeting and
delivered a fine
gave all of us
He particularly
that we should
of our work as foreign imports are
now flooding our shores and offer
ing stiff competition for American
manufacturers. To combat such a
menace he offered the following
formula: “As members of a high
ly skilled craft, we should strive at
all times to show our ability and
expert workmanship in producing
the finest quality product. Only by
this method can we meet the in
roads of foreign competition and
keep our plants working.”
Especially were the members
impressed by his plea for teaching
the younger apprentice members
at the trade today, the good old
fashioned way we were taught, and
not the slip-shod methods of mak
ing pottery. Such indifferent atti
tude on the part of journeymen
teaching the young boys and girls
today will only result in the art
of the American potter being lost.
—O.C. 35
Senator Humphrey
Pays Tribute To
Genius of Gompers
Washington (LPA) American
democracy owes a tremendous debt
to Samuel Gompers, Sen. Hubert
H. Humphrey (D, Minn.) told the
Senate in an address Feb. 3 com
memorating the 100th anniversary
of Gompers’ birth. Humphrey call
ed Gompers “one of the social
architects of our times”. Gompers
was the founder and for many
years president of the American
Federation of Labor.
Gompers gave the labor move
ment “one of the great pillars of
our democracy, shape and sub
stance”, said Humphrey. “Gompers’
essential genius was his penetrat
ing understanding of American cul
ture and what a union had to do to
survive and grow in that culture.”
Among Gompers’ major contri
butions, Humphrey cited “the idea
of trade union autonomy—an idea
which owes much to our theory’ of
the separation of powers between
the States and Federal Govern
ment.”
As a result, Humphrey said, the
“center of the American labor
movement is the 100 or so interna
tional unions in the A. F. of L. and
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AFL, CIO Join
Anti-CP Front
New York (LPA) Because
“Communism as practiced in the
US is not an economic or a politic
al philosophy, but is in fact a de
liberate revolutionary conspiracy
inspired, directed, and financed by
an alien power,” spokesmen for
more than 50,000,000 members of
American organizations have form
ed a continuing committee to fight
Communism. It grew out of a con
ference here Jan. 28 and 29, called
by the American Legion.
i
always, Bro.
Duffy found time in his busy life
to rentier such assistance and we
shall endeavor to use his advice
and counsel to the best advantage.
talk. His remarks
food for thought,
stressed the fact
watch the quality
He further stated the manufac
turers should take note in this re
spect and supply the workers with
good materials. Poor materials as
we had to use during the war will
not help the quality or enable us
to turn out a fine product.
President Duffy also spoke on
union security and the advances
that can be made by labor if we all
pull together. Only if we all work
in unity and bring about repeal
of the Taft-Hartley law, can we
have union security, he stated.
Harry Read, assistant to CIO
Secretary-Treasurer James Carey,J’told
is chairman of the committee, and I
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Picnic Committee Holds
Initial Meeting To Plan
For 1950 Annual Outing
With a determination to make the twenty-second annual outing of
the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters a “super-duper” picnic
that will far surpass any of previous years, members selected to serve
on the 1950 picnic committee assembled at headquarters last Saturday
evening for their initial meeting.
President James M. Duffy set the pattern for a bigger and better
outing by appointing the committee earlier than usual, affording the
group more time to plan a program of entertainment lasting throughout
the day which will enable the youngsters as well as their parents to
have the time of their life.
Senate Committee
Commends Co-Op
Housing Abroad
Washington (LPA)—The Senate
Banking Subcommittee that sur
veyed European housing last fall
has reported that the Scandinavian
countries and Holland “utilize the
cooperative housing technique with
much success to solve their housing
problem.”
The report made no recommen
dations. It commented that wheth
er the experience abroad could be
adapted to this country was a mat
ter of “individual opinion and
judgment”. But buried in the fac
tual report was much material fav
orable to cooperative housing. It
was noted, for instance, that coop
erative housing in Sweden had re
sulted in savings to home-owners
of up to 25 per cent on costs, chief
ly through the elimination of spec
ulative profits.
The report indicated Europe is
ahead of America in providing
housing for city people. It said:
“While people in European cities
are more apt to live in an apart
ment or flat than they are in our
country, it often seemed that we
were behind our European brothers
in trying to provide ad&ftnfte hous
ing for our people. We did not see
any shims that compare with some
right in our nation’s capital.”
The subcommittee is working
out a bill to provide for a cooper
ative housing program in this coun
try for middle-income families.
Lobbyist Wants
$5 illion Ads
What the NAREB’s chief profes
sional lobbyist means by “wild poli
tical experiments” isn’t clear, but
he’s opposed any low-rent public
housing projects, and is ardently
against the co-op housing bill now
before Congress.
“The industries that contribute
to home making put together
form a combination that employs
more people, represents bigger in
vestment, and has more money to
spend than any other economic
group,’
current issue of “Headlines”,
NAREP weekly publication.
“Five million dollars a year by
this giant industry to sell the best
product in the world would be
small change for the business and
the values involved. Yes, sir,
it looks as though we were falling
down on
Nelson trumpets in the
The LLPE administrative com
mittee is meeting here in conjunc
tion with the AFL’s executive coun
cil, which is holding its regular
quarterly conference. Council mem
bers are automatically members of
LLPE’s administrative group.
AFL President William Green
newsmen the fight against
Senator Taft in Ohio will be the
outstanding battle of the elections.
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FEB 13 ’•’50
OFFICIAL ORGAN
NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD
OF OPERATIVE POTTERS
The committee is the same as
served last year and includes the
following: Roy Masker, L. U. 4
P. K. Calhoon, L. U. 9 Frank
Duffy, L. U. 10 Francis Cubberly,
L. U. 12 George Goppert, L. U.
22 James Slaven, L. U. 124, and
Harry L. Gill, Manager of Potters
Herald, all of East Liverpool Will
iam Robinson, L. U. 24, Wellsville,
Ohio Leland Quinn, L. U. 31, East
Palesinte, Ohio A. J. Sanders, L.
U. 42, Salem, Ohio John M. Mam
rack, L. U. 51, Canonsburg, Pa.
Sylvanus De Bee, L. U. 70, Min
erva, Ohio Philip Schroeder, L. U.
44, and William H. Berry, L. U.
192, Sebring, Ohio.
The first order of business for
the committee was the election of
officers with George Goppert be
ing chosen as chairman and P. K.
Calhoon and James Slaven, secre
tary and treasurer, respectively.
The date for the outing was also
set at the initial meeting with the
third Saturday in June which falls
on the 17th being the committee’s
choice after a tip from the weath
er prophet promising clear skies
and plenty of sunshine on this
date.
The committee announced that
the baby show will again be one
of the feature attractions at the
1950 outing. Over 300 youngsters
were entered in this event last year
which was proclaimed by all who
saw it as the finest baby show in
the state.
for
Washington (LPA)—A call
a conference of the home building
and allied industries to initiate a
“giant program of publicity and
selling ef home ownership that
would make our country forever
secure against wild political ex
periments” has been put forward
by Executive Vice-President Her
bert U. Nelson of the Nat’l Asso
ciation of Real Estate Boards.
No-Raiding Pact
Between Unions
Washington (LPA)—A no-raid
ing agreement between the United
Auto Workers and the Internation
al Association of Machinists was
announced Jan. 30 by Secretary of
Labor Maurice Tobin. The volun
tary agreement was an eloquent
answer to proponents of the Taft
Hartley act, who insisted that T-H
was necessary, as otherwise no
unions would, on their own, settle
jurisdictional disputes.
In a joint statement, Presidents
Walter Reuther of the UAW and
Al Hayes of the Machinists declar
ed:
Our organizations have joined
in this voluntary agreement for
the mutual benefit of the members
of our two unions, and for the pro
motion of industrial peace and sta
bility. It is a contribution to the
economic well-being of our people
and of our country. We have al
ways believed that free labor can
work out its intra-mural problems
without Government intervention
or interference.”
is mougn we were railing Congratulating both organiza
selling home ownership.”! (Tun to Page Two)
Joint Labor-Farmer Action Is
Election Key, AFL
Miami Beach, Fla. (LPA)—Ef
fective cooperation between labor
and farm leaders at the county
level will be one of the decisive
points in next fall’s Congressional
elections, Joseph Keenan told re
porters here. He is director of
Labor’s League for Political Edu
cation. George N. Harrison, chair
man of the League’s committee on
political direction, concurred, say
ing labor will benefit from “the
farm revolt against Republican
Senators in farm states where such
Senators happen to be labor’s
chief enemies.”
Leaders Hold
He said Taft’s defeat would be in
terpreted by labor “as foreshadow
ing the repeal of the Taft-Hartley
law.”
Keenan declared many of the
pro-Taft-Hartley Republicans are
now trying to eliminate or lower
the price supports on farm pro
ducts. Since the Democrats favor
price supports, he said, farmers in
a number of localities are turning
away from the Republican party.
Keenan based his conclusions on
what he has seen on frequent tri pa
through rural districts.
He said labor’s overall aim waa
to see to it that friendly members
of Congress are re-elected next fall,
and to add 15 or 20 friendly mem
bers of the House and five to
seven in the Senate.
AFL Secretary-treasurer George
Meany announced that LLPE had
$275,000 in its education fund as of
Jan. 31, and $34,000 in its political
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at the next meet-
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ing of the committee on Saturday,
Feb. 18. Representatives from the
leading amusement centers in the
tri-state district have been invited
to attend this meeting and the
committee will make their choice
after the various representatives
outline the features of their res
pective parks such as entertain
ment features, parking facilities,
athletic field, eating pavilion, etc.
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