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METAL TRADES
OPPOSE EMBARGO
Ask Congress to Permit Sale of Goods
to All Nations—Say Act is
Discriminatory.
Cincinnati (ILNS). Holding the
Neutrality Act is "un-neutral" and
"discriminatory," the thirty-first an
nual convention of the Metal Trades
Department, American Federation of
Labor, declared for revision of the
act to permit the sale of goods to all
nations. This would mean elimina
tion of the present embargo on arms
shipments to belligerents.
The convention, in approving a re
port drafted by the resolutions com
mittee, declared that the Neutrality
Act's provisions gave "negative aid
to the dictatorships" of Russia and
Italy, while preventing Great Britain
and France from buying American
arms and munitions because they
were at war.
Law Held "Extremely Un-neutral"
The convention criticized the law
because of the embargo on finished
munitions, while trade in other com
moditions equally necessary for war
is permitted.
"We believe the present so-called
Neutrality Act to be extremely un
neutral and discriminatory against
the democratic nations," the report
said.
It called for removal of the "un
neutral" provisions from the law to
allow free sale of goods to all nations
"in such a manner as will prevent the
United States from becoming allied
with one group of warring nations
against another."
Labor Peace Efforts Declaration
The convention blamed Chairman
John L. Lewis of the C. 1.0. for fail
ure of unity efforts between the C. I.
O. and A. F. of L.
In the closing session, the conven
tion indicated that it did not favor
further efforts by President Roose
velt or others to bring the labor or
ganizations into agreement.
Delegates adopted a statement that
"we believe it is unnecessary for any
official of government to direct a re
quest to the A. F. of L. to do the
thing which it has always shown a
willingness to do."
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This would be much lower than the
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Cincinnati (ILNS).—"Neutrality in
practice" was advocated by John P.
Frey, president of the Metal Trades
Department, American Federation of
Labor, in pi-esenting the officers' re
port to the department's thirty-fifth
annual convention, opening a week in
advance of the A. F. of L. convention.
"In the present world crisis," he
said, "it seems to me that the position
of our country must be one of abso
lute, unqualified neutrality in prac-
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John P. Frey, President Of Metal Trades Department,
A. F. Of L., Urges "Neutrality In Practice"—Can Be
No Compromise With Any Type Of Propaganda.
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Metal Trades Head
Urges Absolute Neutrality In
Practice Warns Of Tax Loadl
tice. It must not be expressed in
catch phrases. We must maintain a
neutrality which is neutral in purpose,
in action and policy—a neutrality
which does not work to the advantage
of some warring nations and to the
disadvantage of others."
Frey expressed the opinion that
"free trade union movements and dic
tatorships cannot exist side by side
in any country."
"The democratic countries abroad,
particularly the most influential and
powerful, had a golden opportunity
to make Europe safer for democracy
but instead of lending a helping hand
to the German republic they pursued
the opposite course. They made
possible the rise of Adolf Hitler."
Opposition to Reds Urged
Frey's report called for vigorous
opposition to Communist activities
within the labor movement, declaring:
"As the Communist party is now
edoubling its efforts to secure a
measure of control within the mem
bership of the affiliated international
unions as it seeks to destroy the
American wage earners' faith in
American institutions, and in the poli
cies of American trade unionists, it
becomes necessary that we should de
fend our principles and policies by
tirelessly and vigorously exposing the
under cover, subtle and deceptive, as
well as the open propaganda, being
carried on against us by the Commu
nist party and those others in our
country who give it support.
"No Compromise," He Says
"There can be no compromise with
any type of propaganda, the purpose
of which is to enable those who are
not trade unionists to shape the pur
pose, the policies and the activities of
our trade union movement."
Frey warned strongly against "di
vide-the-wealth" schemes and de
clared there can be no recovery until
the national income is materially in
creased.
"The plague of the depression and
unemployment which burdens us," he
said, "is due to the fact that our
agencies for the production of wealth
are not operating at normal capacity
a-id it is through their activities that
much of the national wealth is pro
duced."
Wealth Increase Held Vital
Pointing out that the increase in
the national debt "vitally affects la
bor," Frey said:
"There is an unfortunate belief in
the minds of many, that somehow or
other the taxes to pay interest on the
national debt and reduce its amount,
can be collected from the wealthy
The only taxes that can be collected
directly from the wealthy are the per
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sonal income and death taxes. All of
the remaining taxation, which is by
far the largest amount of taxes paid,
is collected from labor, from the con
sumer.
"Wage earners pay a much
larger proportion of their income
in taxes than any other group.
The form of their taxes is indi
rect—the hidden taxes—the ad
ditional price they pay for every
day commodities of life.
"The present tendency is for these
indirect taxes to increase, and they
must continue to increase unless the
nation can resume the production of
wealth, sufficiently to make our na
tion prosperous again."
Says Lewis Blocks Unity
Frey charged that labor unity is
impossible because John L. Lewis will
veto any peace proposal "which does
not meet with his personal approval)
and personal ambitions."
The metal trades leader sharply
criticized .1. O. activities and charged|
that the C. I. O. and Communist party
were working together to destroy the)
American Federation of Labor.
He said there was "an earnest de
sire" among the membership of both
the A. F. of L. and C. I. O. for peace,
and that the A. F. of L. peace com
mittee, named at President Roose
velt's personal request, "went even
farther than some of their instruc
tions in the effort to present a pro
gram for unity which would accom
plish that much-desired result."
Truck Drivers Strike
For Higher Wage Rates|
Washington, D. C. (AFLWNS).—
About 400 members of Drivers,
Chauffeurs and Helper's' Union, Local
No. 639, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, struck against
contractors here in a dispute over
wages. It was stated that the driv-|
ers who received 75 cents an hour
under a contract which expired Au
gust 31 asked 90 cents an hour, an
increase from $6 to $7.20 for an
eight-hour day.
Howard T. Colvin, Labor Depart
ment conciliator, and Tom O'Brien
of Philadelphia, international repre
sentative of the Teamsters' Union,
intervened to promote an early settle
ment of the dispute. Construction
work on a number of government
buildings was slowed down as a re
suit of the refusal of the contractors
to pay the new union scale.
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