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Washington, D. C.—AFL President
William Green made a last-minute,
dramatic appeal to Congress for de
feat of the job-freeze bill agreed to by
House and Senate conferees which is
considered the most dangerous legis
lation against free labor in the na
tion's history.
Mr. Green declared the bill "smacks
of slavery" and to impose it upon the
nation's patriotic workers at this
Stage of the world war, "which it is
clearly evident that the German ar
mies are decisively defeated," is "un
justifiable and indefensible."
While a bitter fight against the con
ference report loomed in both Houses
of Congress as this edition went to
press, leaders of both parties pre
dicted its adoption over the protests of
labor and industry.
Senator Kilgore, of West Virginia,
declared after meeting with labor and
management representatives, that it
was their unanimous belief that the
legislation would retard war produc
tion instead of increasing it.
The Senate-House conference com
mittee on manpower legislation which
adopted the so-called "compromise"
report were stacked in favor of dras
tic and compulsory legislation. The
report was adopted over the objec
tions of Senator O'Mahoney, of Wy
oming and Rep. Short, of Missouri.
It makes War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes supreme dictator
over the nation's 50 million industrial
workers, authorizing him to call on
other Federal agencies to enforce his
orders. Salient provisions of the bill
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1—It empowers the War Mobiliza
tion Director to fix and maintain man
power ceilings in each plant.
2—It authorizes him to freeze work
ers in their jobs, to shift workers
from one job to another regardless of
their wishes and to compel employers
not to hire workers who fail to com
ply.
3—It imposes penalties of a year in
jail, a $10,000 fine, or both for wilful
violation of the law's provisions
4—It empowers the War Mobiliza
tion Director to regulate hiring and
ire-hiring.
5—The bill prohibits voluntary res
!. Agnations from jobs unless approved
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Most Dangerous Bill To Labor Headed For
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prevents solicitation of workers by
employers and the acceptance of jobs
by workers in plants which £Tre up to
their manpower ceilings.
6—It authorizes the War Mobiliza
tion Director to say that manpower
ceilings for plants considered non-es
sential shall be zero, thereby putting
them out of business.
Labor and management groups
Washington, D. C. President
Roosevelt ordered an official study
made of the possibility of extending
throughout American industry a guar
anteed annual wage—"one of the main
aspirations of American workers."
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Guaranteed Annual Wage
Sought By FDR Inquiry
Continuity of Employment, Perhaps Most Vital Economic
and Social Objective in Our Times
The study will be made by the advis
ory board to the Office of War Mobil
ization, composed of labor, manage
ment, agriculture and government rep
resentatives, and on which President
William Green represents the AFL.
The President acted upon request
of the National War Labor Board
which said that increasing interest
in a guaranteed annual wage "is part
of the search for continuity of em
ployment which is, perhaps, the most
vital economic and social objective in
our times."
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Several AFL unions have succeed
ed in instituting annual wage plans
in a few industries but management,
in most cases, has been extremely re
luctant to undertake the responsibility
of guaranteeing employment and
wages over periods even of one year.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of
the Department of Labor made public
a survey which indicates that the an
nual wage idea, while growing, has
made little headway against manage
ment opposition.
The report showed that approxi
mately 42,500 workers are covered by
guaranteed employment or annual
wages. Most of the workers receiv
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fighting to prevent Congressional ap
proval of this sweeping measure, were
faced by the traditional difficulty of
defeating a conference report and by
the further circumstance that the bill
was reported acceptable to the White
House.
While reports on President Roose
velt's attitude were unofficial, his re
peated requests for compulsory man
power legislation dimmed hopes that
he might be prevailed upon to veto the
bill in the event that Congress adopts
it.
ed in consumei's goods, service and
distributive industries BLS declared.
"Although there are a few out
standing examples in manufacturing
companies of considerable size, the
total number of employes in manu
facturing industries who are covered
by agreements providing guaranteed
employment is very small, about 12,
500," the report disclosed.
"Broadly, the plans provided in cur
rent employer-union agreements are
of two kinds," BLS revealed, "those
guaranteeing employment and those
guaranteeing annual wages. The em
ployment-guarantee plans specify the
number of weeks or hours of work
to be provided employes each year
without specifying the amount of earn
ings to be received. In other words,
what is guaranteed is a year's job with
the total annual earnings left a varia
ble. Under annual wages plans, the
employee is guaranteed a weekly in
come throughout the year regardless
of daily or seasonal fluctuations in em
ployment. Actually, the distinction
between guaranteed employment and
annual wage plans is one of emphasis
only, for if the employer cannot fur
nish sufficient work to fulfill the con
tract, wages must be paid for the bal
ance of the time guaranteed."
About 6,500 union contracts in man
ufacturing industries were examined,
and BLS found that 132 had some form
of guaranteed employment or annual
wage plan covering 142 companies
Eighty-eight of these companies, em
ploying about 5,850 workers, now guar
antee a full year's employment or
wages, the remaining 54 companies,
employing about 6,500 workers, pro
vide guarantees of less than one year.
"Most of the guarantee provisions,"
said BLS, "have qualifications which
allow cancellation or modification un
der specified circumstances and which
extend the guarantee to only a limited
number of employes."
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Probe Of 'Slave Labor*
In C. O. Camps Asked
New York City (ILNS).—A request
for a congressional investigation of
"slave labor in the conscientious ob
jectors' camps, and especially the one
in Waldport, Ore., due to continued
violent deaths there resulting from
high-handed misassi^nmen/t of in
ternees to dangerous, unfamiliar
work," has been made to Sen. Wayne
Morse of Oregon, by the Rev. Aron S.
Gilmartin, national chairman of the
Workers Defense League.
Spurring the league's action was the
recent death of George Moyland, 39,
of Chicago, killed when a 17-foot limb,
sawed from a nearby tree, struck him
on the head. Moyland was the second
man in the last 6 months to be killed
while performing hazardous work at
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fourth in the past 2 years, Gilmartin
told Morse.
Sharply criticizing Waldport of
ficials for their "dictatorial manner of
work assignments." the WDL chair
man urged abolition of "the slave la
bor system of the Civilian Public
Service camps, a ruthless invention to
punish men for exercising their moral
and constitutional right to express
their religious beliefs."
For guidance in the proposed in
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Sen. Morse to the conscientious ob
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New Zealand, all of which, he declared
have more enlightened, democratic
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Chicago (ILNS).—Servel, Inc., of
Evansville, Ind., has become the first
3-time winner of the National Safety
Council's wartime award for Distin
guished Service to Safety.
"Servel's achievement in consistent?
ly reducing accidents since Jan. 1,
1942, proves that accidents can be re
duced despite wartime production
schedules," the council said.
The council award, which consists
of the first 2-starred "S" pennant ever
bestowed on an industrial organiza
tion, was presented on Billie Burke's
coast-to-coast "Fashions in Rations"
March 24. Each star on the "S" pen
nant represents one safe war year
since Servel first won the award in
1942.
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