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Philadelphia.—With the ringing of
the Liberty Bell seven times, AFL
President William Green launched the
Seventh War Loan Drive in Indepen
dence Hall. In a radio talk addressed
to the entire nation, he urged work
ers to buy more Series E Bonds than
ever before to make victory cer
tain.
Flanked by distinguished represen
tatives of Government and industry,
Mr. Green said:
rhe need of the nation is greater
than ever before. The cruel war in
which we are engaged is calling for
the sacrifice of human life. It is
consuming all materials, service and
contributions which we can make.
"Men and women of labor—friends
cf labor everywhere—harken to the
nation's call! Participate in the
Seventh War Loan Drive by pur
chasing more bonds than you ever
purchased in any previous War Loan
Drive. Resolve firmly now to do this
and by so doing help our brave fight
ing forces inflict the final blow upon
our enemies on the battlefields."
Mr. Green recalled in his talk that
organized labor took part in the ear
liest moves to gain independence in
America when the Carpenters' Union
of Philadelphia loaned its meeting
hall to the founding fathers when
they gathered to consider the Decla
ration of Independence.
"And now in the fight against Naz
ism and Faseism," he continued, "la
bor is responding and must continue
to respond to the call of the Govern
ment for service and support."
It is estimated that unions affiliated
with the American Federation of La
bor and the seven million members of
the AFL have already purchased four
billion dollars worth of War Bonds.
Mr. Green's talk launched another
intensive drive to induce AFL mem
tiers to invest another billion dollars
of their earnings and savings in war
bonds during the coming campaign.
Efforts will be made by the AFL's
organizing and regional staffs to pre
vail upon workers to supplement their
regular purchases of War Bonds,
through payroll allotment, with extra
purchases to the limit of their finan
cial ability,
Mr. Green said that the payroll al
lotment plans, originated by labor,
"will always stand as a brilliant page
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VOL. XLV. No. 2 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1945
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Green Launches AFL's Part
Of Seventh War Loan Drive
Ringing Of Liberty Bell Sets Off Intensive Campaign
To Buy Bonds
record of labor's war activi-
Labor
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Washington, D. C.—The only sure
way of estabishing job protection for
veterans after the war is to bring
about full employment, organized la
bor told the Government.
In a joint report to Gen. Frank T.
Hines, Director of the Veterans Ad
ministration, the AFL, CIO and rail
road unions declared:
"Only full employment can assure
to the veteran the security and oppor
tunity he has earned at the risk of his
life. Failure to maintain reasonably
full employment will give rise to so
cial tensions threatening our country
with the rise of a tyrannical dictator
ship similar to those the veterans has
fought to destroy in other lands.
"A depressed economy would jeopar
dize the erhployed veteran's wage
scale and force him to share his earn
ings, through taxation and otherwise,
with his unemployed fellow citizens.
His job would be endangered by the
lack of a market for the products of
his labor and by willingness of others
to do his work for lower wages,
"No form of veterans' preference
could long withstand such economic
pressures. Our first obligation to the
veteran, therefore, is to plan as a na
tion for an expanding economy in
which there are jobs at decent wages
for all able and willing to work."
With or without full employment,
the three labor groups made it clear
they are determined to fight to get a
square deal for the returning soldiers.
They pledged all possible efforts, not
only to restore veterans to their for
mer jobs with accumulated rights and
privileges, but also to help place those
who never held jobs before and to find
new work for disabled "vets" who
caanot perform their former tasks.
They called for a liberal interpre
tation of reinstatement provisions of
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The ceremonies at Independence
Hall here were under the auspices
for Jobs (or Veterans
Employment Best Guarantee
the Selective Service law so as to plug
loopholes under which many "vets"
can now be barred from restoration to
their old jobs.
For example, the law now only pro
tects "regular" employes, not "tem
porary" ones. The labor organizations
urged that this limitation be applied
so that any veteran, even if he had
held a "temporary" position prior to
induction, shall be deemed "regular
if he had acquired seniority rights or
if his former or a similar position still
exists on his return.
Also, the law now practically closes
the doors to employment of "disabled"
veterans, since an employer need not
rehire a service man who is no longer
"qualified" to perform the duties of
his old job.
The labor groups insisted that the
law be interpreted to permit the dis
abled "vet" to exex-cise a seniority
claim to any job in his former plant
that he can do—or, if no seniority
system exists, he should be given pref
erence in such job over any workers
hired after he had gone into service.
The same kind of preference was
advocated for any veteran whose for
mer job or one of "like seniority,
status and pay" no longer exists. In
many other ways, the program of the
labor organizations called for protec
tion to service men beyond the narrow
limits of the law.
The three groups united in warning
against a so-called "superseniority"
plan pushed by some Selective Service
officials, which would go beyond res
toration of a "vet" to his full job
rights. Under that plan, a service
man could "bump" a worker with far
greater seniority. Thus a son could
oust his father from a Job he may
have held for 20 years or more, or a
veteran of this war could force out a
"vet" of World War I.
The unions contended such a plan
was in conflict with the law and if
applied would wreck long-established
seniority systems, thus depriving all
veterans, as well as civilians, of one
of their major bulwarks of job se
curity.
Commissioner Walsh's "gag order'
was issued as a consequence of a pub
licized controversy over firemen's
wages and hours, the Civ&.Lib«*tiM
Committee's brief says.
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cooperating closely with labor in the
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