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Miami.—The American Federation
of Labor demanded that the govern
ment accord labor full representation
at the conference of the United Na
tions to be held at San Francisco
April 25 to set up machinery for last
ing peace.
Before adjourning until its next
meeting in Washington in the spring,
the Executive Council heard a de
tailed report from Joseph A. Padway,
AFL counsel, on developments with
regard to proposals for state and fed
eral anti-labor legislation and on the
progress of litigation against existing
anti-labor statutes.
Mr. Padway expressed confidence
that Supreme Court will outlaw most
of the obnoxious measures already
adopted. Such action, he felt, would
deter state legislatures in the future
from enacting further legislation of
this kind.
The Council authorized President
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Executive Council Demands Hearing For AFL Plan
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The purpose of such representa
tion, AFL President William Green
declared, would be to make known
labor's recommendations "for the es
tablishment of a secure peace and for
dealing with post-war problems."
He revealed that an AFL commit
tee would be appointed to attend the
conference as delegates from this
country or as "advisers" to the Amer
ican delegates.
The AFL Executive Council, mean
while, concluded its mid-winter meet
ing here after taking the following
additional actions:
l.—It agreed to re-admit the United
Mine Workers into the Federation
when and if that union assumes the
obligations attached to affiliation.
2—It unanimously ratified Presi
dent Green's rejection of a tricky
proposal for "functional unity" made
by the CIO and his criticism of the
CIO for failure to accept the AFL's
offer to negotiate organic unity.
3—it called upon Congress to
amend the National Labor Relations
Act so that the workers themselves
and not the National Labor Relations
Board—shall determine the unit to
represent them in collective bargain
ing.
4—-It urged all central bodies of the
federation to set up special commit
tees at once for the re-employment
and re-habilitation of returning war
veterans.
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Green to support the efforts of the
National Federation of the Blind to
provide new job opportunities for
sightless workers.
It also instructed Mr. Green to no
tify local unions of cannery workers
on the Pacific Coast that warehouse
workers on their rosters must be turn
ed over to the International Brother
hood of Teamsters which has jurisdic
tion over such workers.
Dealing with another jurisdictional
dispute, the Council clarified a previ
ous settlement regarding repair work
on engineering machinery. The dis
pute involved the International As
sociation of Machinists and the Oper
ating Engineers.
Mr. Green said prompt action would
be taken to carry out the council's
action on amendment of the NLRA.
An amendment, patterned after a pro-
Miami.—The AFL Executive Coun
cil called upon all local units of the
federation to organize re-employment
and rehabilitation centers for return
ing war veterans. The council's dec
laration follows:
"America's primary post-War re
sponsibility is to provide every op
portunity for returning veterans to
make a new start in life.
"This obligation cannot be left en
tirely to government. The people of
our country must help the govern
ment do this job right—and that in
cludes labor, industry, agriculture and
our educational system. Nor can the
problem be solved effectively at the
national level. It will require strong,
progressive and' cooperative commu
nity action.
"Mindful of these facts and, con
scious of the mandate voted unani
mously at the last American Federa
tion of Labor convention for full la
bor participation in all programs
dealing with rehabilitation of vete
rans, the Executive Council directs:
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vision now incorporated in the New
York state law, will be drafted and[
introduced in Congress at once.
At present, Mr. Green explained,!
the NLRB exercises arbitrary author
ity to determine by itself what the
appropriate collective bargaining unit
in each representation case shall be.
In many cases, he charged, the board's
decisions have been contrary to the
wishes of the workers affected and
have aroused widespread ill-feeling
and occasional strikes. He cited the
strike of teamsters in St. Paul brew
eries as an example of the resentment
of workers against attempts of the
board to force them into unions not oi'|
their own choice.
Under the proposed amendment, the
workers would be given the opportu
nity to decide for themselves whether
they wished a separate craft unit in a
plant or wished to be included in jt
single industrial unit and the board
would have to comply with their de-
"1—That the American Federation
of Labor take the lead in sponsoring
and supporting legislation—national,|
state and local—which will facilitate
the return of veterans to civilian lift.)
"2—That efforts be made to work
out agreements among labor, industry]
and farm groups with veterans' or
ganizations and government agencies
on the proper kind of legislative and]
administrative action.
»3—That the 900 central bodies of|
the American Federation of Labor
functioning in every industrial cit\
and district of the nation, form specialI
committees to help find jobs for re-|
turning veterans in their localities and
to stimulate concerted action by all
groups in each community along these
lines.
"The Executive Council takes pride
in reporting that the unions affiliated
with the American Federation of La
bor have carefully protected the sen
iority rights of their members now
serving in the armed forces so that
this army of more than 1,500,000
workers in uniform will find it com
paratively easj to get their old jobs
back when the war ends.
"The Executive Council also highly
commends the action of most affiliated
organizations in waiving initiation
fees for any qualified veteran of this
war who wishes to become a member
of the union when he gets back home.
"Beyond this, labor must devote
particular attention to the problem
of rehabilitating the many thousands
of disabled war veterans and war
plant workers who have sustained per
manent injuries as a result of the war|
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