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At the same time, the delegates ap
peared to be in an aggressive mood
with regard to restrictive government
policies which have hampered labor's
efforts to mobilize the war production
program to the highest pitch and to
prepare the nation for an era of post
war prosperity.
Chief among the complaints voiced
by the delegates in pre-cenvention dis
cussions around the hotel lobbies were
those directed against the Little Steel
Formula. Most of the union repre
sentatives expressed the belief that
this wage-freeze formula should be
scrapped entirely and all agreed that
the least the Government should do is
to revise the formula so that wage
rates can be brought into parity with
increased living costs.
Unless such action is taken, the dele
gates said, the purchasing power of
the nation's workers is bound to drop
so severely in the post-war period that
full production and jobs for all will be
ftnpossible.of attainment.
•However, the predominant note
among the delegates was optimistic
They appeared to be cheered by the
progress of the United Nations' mili
tary drives in Europe and in the
Pacific and they seemed confident that
Germany's resistance will break and
the war in Europe will be over long
before most observers anticipate.
PHONES 48-78
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Delegates Show Confidence In Nation's
Early, Debates
New Orleans.—The 64th annual
convention of the American Federa
tion of Labor is about to get under
way with the problems of winning the
war and the peace uppermost in the
minds of the 600 delegates.
These delegates, representing 101
national and international unions and
more than 50,000 local unions, includ
ing State Federations and city cen
tral bodies, have come here to chart
future policies for the record-breaking
6,806,913 membership of the American
Federation of Labor.
Their spirit as they gather in the
spacious New Orleans Municipal Au
ditorium was high and their confi
dence unshaken in the certainty of
early victory and the establishment of
lasting world peace.
In token of their desire to do every
thing possible to speed the victory,
the delegates were prepared to give
a rousing endorsement to labor's no
strike pledge for the duration of the
war.
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The likelihood that the war against
Japan may continue for many months
after victory in Europe was regarded
as an opportunity to speed up recon
version in many industries and get
the way set for an all-out peace pro
duction program by the time final vic
tory on all fronts is assured.
For the most part the delegates ap
peared enthused by the election re
sults and the conviction was expressed
in many quartets that the President
could not have been re-elected to a
fourth term without overwhelming
labor support.
Representatives To Sit With Administration, Paving Way
For Real Collective Bargaining
Seattle.—The Bonneville Adminis
tration has agreed to sit down and
negotiate with AFL union representa
tives, thus paving the way for the
establishment of real collective bar
gaining on the huge northwest power
project which takes in both the Bon
neville and Grand Coulee dams along
the Columbia River.
The administration is a division of
the Department of Interior, under
Secretary Ickes, but its labor relations
are governed by civil service regula
tions.
For a long time, the Columbia Pow
er Trades Council, representing nearly
6,000 AFL workers employed on the
projects, has been trying to secure
collective bargaining with the Bon
neville officials. Heretofore, there
have been only informal dealings and
consulations, with the officials insist
ing that they cannot enter into col
lective bargaining agreements because
of civil service rules.
The situation is entirely different
from that at the Tennessee Valley Au
thority, which is set up as an auton
omous government corporation and
which has established highly success
ful collective bargaining agreements
with AFL unions.
Now, at Bonneville a step in that
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The delegates anticipated a renewed
drive for much broader social security
legislation in the new Congress, par
ticularly an adequate and uniform un
employment compensations system
strong enough to tide over those dis
employed in war industries unti
peacetime jobs are" available.
AFL Unions Seek Bargaining Rights
At Huge Government Power Projects
Among the matters in which
union representatives showed special
interest were the reports brought back
from the fighting fronts by AFL Di
rector of Organization Frank Fentoi
and the reports on conditions in Eu
rope submitted by the AFL's frater
nal delegates to the British Trade:
Union Congress and by Luigi Ante
nini, who made a special trip to Italy
as AFL President William Green',
personal representative.
direction has also been achieved. The
officials have finally decided that the
law permits them to undertake real
collective bargaining with the unions
—though they still insist that what
ever agreement is reached will have
to be oral and cannot be put down iti
writing.
Nonetheless, Oscar G. Harbak, in
ternational representative of the Elec
trical Workers hailed this concession
"as a long step forward, because coi
lective bargaining has been hard to
achieve under civil service."
Union leaders are hopeful that, hav
ing proken the ice, a way may be
founa later to obtain written agree
ments. Marion H. Hedges, research
director of the Electrical Workers, in
sisted that this can be done within
the law.
"If the Civil Service Commission
were simply to review its regulation
somewhat, the obstacles could be
cleared away," Hedges said. "All the
commission would have to do is rule
that on projects similar to Bonneville
where an oral agreement between
federal management and labor has
been amicably reached, such agree
ment can be put down in writing.
"We believe such revised regula
tions would be helpful all around
helpful to labor, to the public and to
the government. More harmonious
relations and greater efficiency would
result."
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AFL WILL INITIATE
WAR BOND DRIVE
New Orleans.—America's 6th War
Bond Drive for the sale of 14 billion
dollars worth of the best investment
securities in the world will be launch
ed at a mass meeting of delegates to
the 64th annual convention of the
American Federation of Labor on
Nov. 20.
To this gathering, in the grand ball
room of the Roosevelt Hotel, Secre
ry of the Treasury Henry Morgen
thau will speak by radio over the fa
cilities of the Blue Network
From the rostrum, AFL President
William Green will reply with a rous
ing appeal to American labor to help
put the new War Bond Drive over the
top.
Also on the same radio program,
which will be carried over a coast-to
coast network, will be Henry Kaiser,
West Coast industrialist who has
earned the respect and admiration of
all labor as well as the nation. Mr
Kaiser will speak from Portland, Ore.
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This is only one of the big radio
features of the convention.
On Nov. 16, Mr. Green will speak
over the "March of Time" program on
labor's plans for combatting the ef
fects of the anti-union shop amend
ments adopted in the last election by
the States of Florida and Arkansas.
On Nov. 20 Mr. Green will broad
cast a condensed version of his key
note address to the convention. This
will be carried by the Columbia Broad
casting System from 10:15 to 10:30
p. m., Central War Time.
Beginning Nov. 27, Richard ,Hark
ness, top-flight NBC commentator,
will give a nightly description of AFL
convention highlights until the meet
ing closes. He is heard over all NBC
stations from 10:15 to 10:30 p. m.,
Central War Time.
SOLDIER'S VIEW
(From the New York Times)
Writing from the front in Holland,
one of our correspondents with the
Second British Army presents in pic
turesque language a British Tommy's
faith in what he is fighting for. Rifle
slung over his shoulder, its strap al
most concealing the ribbons he wore
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That was a view extending far be
yond party differences and clashing
personalities. It was a philosophy of
life, and it is probably not unfair to
say that GI Joe echoes the thought.
He, too, knows that in the dreadful
valley of decision, whether that be on
the fields of France or on the sands of
the South Pacific, there is not much
future for "blokes like me," only he
would say "&uys like me," which is all
the same. And he, too, will want those
who come through to have decent
homes, decent wages and money
enough to raise the children decently.
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for decorations won on the African
desert, his bayonet slapping at his
side, 120 rounds of ammunition in the
pouches of the webbing of his pack
and that pack a heart-breaking burden
to be borne, the soldier, slogging to
the front, was asked for his opinion
of the election in the United States.
"Wot do I know about it?" he re
plied. "All I know is this: There's,
little future 'ere. People like me get
killed, but blokes what come through
ought to 'ave the right to decent 'owes,
decent wages and money enough to
put by to take care of our babies."
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