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Wasting no time in getting down
to business, the council opened its
f&U session by firing a broadside into
the advocates of continued federal
economic regulation. It warned that
prolongation of the life of the NWLB
would result in increasing strikes and
the threats of strikes, forcing labor
$nd management to go to the govern
ment for the solution of their prob
lems instead of settling differences
through collective bargaining.
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AFL URGES DEMISE OF NWLB
Cincinnati. The AFL Executive
Council called upon President Tru
man to permit the National War La
bor Board to go out of existence and
to remove all government controls
over wages immediately.
The Executive Council acted as the
president was consulting with mem
tiers of the NWLB in Washington on
the advisability of reviving the agen
cy. The firm stand taken by the
Federation's leaders was expected to
halt any such move.
Executive Council Acts to Free Labor From
Regulation
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Behind The Eight Ball
AFL President William Green told
newsmen at a press conference that
the Executive Council intends to for
mulate a plan that will reduce strikes
to a minimum. He indicated that
this plan will be submitted to the
forthcoming labor-industry-conference
by the AFL delegates to that parley.
Mr. Green also revealed that the
Executive Council had reaffirmed its
decision of last August to forego a
national convention this year. While
the government's ban on conventions
has been lifted since the last council
meeting, the AFL leaders decided it
would be impossible to make arrange
ments and obtain accommodations for
a convention before the year ends.
Therefore, the next AFL convention
will take place in October of 1946.
In its statement on the NWLB, the
council declared that the board had
outlived its usefulness, that its au
thority had been weakened almost
to the vanishing point and that new
legislation would be needed to give
its decisions force and effect now.
"Such legislation", said the coun
cil, "would usher in another period
of government by emergency. The
executive council believes the na
tion has had enough of that. The
time has come to move in the op
posite direction. The time has come
for the people of America—includ
ing labor and management—to stand
on their own feet instead of depend
ing upon the government."
MOOSE HOME
At 141 P. M.
According to reports in Washing
ton, the CIO was the only group to
urge continuation of the NWLB.
Without mentioning any names,
the executive council said in its state
ment:
"Those who desire prolongation of
the National War Labor Board have
no confidence in themselves nor in
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the operation of the free enterprise
system. They are ready to admit
that the American way of life is a
failure.
"The American Federation of La
bor does not shai*e these views. We
firmly believe that the way to estab
lish industrial peace and stability is
to remove government control of
wages immediately, instead of rein
forcing it."
The council warned that govern
ment policies designed to prevent in
flation already have resulted in de
flation—"sharp deflation of the in
come of the nation's workers."
With wage earnings and take-home
pay dropping suddenly below subs^
tence levels, it is no wonder thai
strikes are taking place, the counci
said.
Calling upon President Truman to
adopt a new course, the council in
sisted that wage controls can be lifted
while price control and rent conti
are continued until peacetime produc
tion and construction are expanded to
meet public demands.
Wage rates should be permitted
"to rise to their proper level through
the free exercise of collective bar
gaining", the council emphasized. It
also urged that business be encour
aged to keep prices down through the
operation of normal competition.
"Mr. Green said that because of
new and cheaper methods of produc
tion and because of higher labor pro
ductivity, industry for the most part
can afford to pay higher wage rates
without lifting consumer prices."
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SAY, LISTEN!
For the rest of this year, the AFL
presents each Saturday evening at
6:45 P. M., EST., over the nation-wide
network of the American Broadcasting
Company a radio news-magazine, fea
turing the latest news at home and
abroad and special reports by expert
commentators on important labor
problems. This program is listed in the
radio columns of your newspaper as
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Grand Lodge reports to the dele
gates of the 21st convention of the
57-year-old organization will show a
membership of more than 700,000,
with nearly 100,000 who have been
inducted into the armed services dur
ing the war. The report will show
a phenomenal growth of 465,000 in
membership since 1940, with 702 new
lodges chartered in the period, Mr
Peterson revealed. They will show that
the IAM is the dominant union in the
aircraft industry, with 131 aircraft
lodges with more than 158,000 mem
bers, in addition to the many other
members of the union doing aircraft
work in contract shops and in the air
craft parts industry. They will re
veal wide organization in the air
transport industry, where the first
agreements with the airlines provid
ing for keeping the same take-home
pay with a reduction of hours from
48 to 40 have just been signed by the
union and the Eastern Airlines and the
United Airlines.
The convention delegates will ana
lyze the problems growing out of re
conversion and will chart the course
of the organization for the postwar
era. Before actions taken by the con
vention are put into effect, they are
submitted in a referendum to the mem
bership for ratification.
Mr. Peterson indicated that the
main problems of general public in
terest to be taken up by the delegates
would be cut-backs in industry, re
duction of take-home pay, the com
bined wage movement of the railway
shop crafts, and training and retrain
ing for peacetime jobs in industry.
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New York City.—The first 'full
fledged convention by a major labor
organization since the end of the war
will be held by the International As
sociation of Machinists here, begin
ning Oct. 29.
Machinists' Convention Opens Oct. 29
To Analyze Problems of Reconversion and Chart Course
Of the Organization For Postwar Era
The convention of this large affil
iate of the American Federation of
Labor has been called at the earliest
date permitted by the Office of De
fense Transportation, in order to
tackle urgent problems growing out
of the reconversion of industry to
peacetime operations, Eric Peterson,
Secretary-Treasurer of the union,
said.
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THIRD
Veterans Warned
Against Swindlers
Veterans are warned against the le
gion of swindlers who look upon the
returned soldier as an easy mark, by
William Trufant Foster in the 3'2-page
pamphlet, GYPS AND SWINDLES,
published today by the Public Affairs
Committee of New York.
"Many a soldier has in his pockets
his back pay, plus travel expenses
home, plus part of his mustering-out
pay Soldiers and sailors and their
families have more than thirty billion
dollars in war bonds, plus enormous
savings in banks, plus the privilege,
under the GI Bill of Rights, of having
loans up to $2,000 guaranteed by the
government."
"Never before," Dr. Foster points
out, "have swindlers seen so much
money almost within their grasp."
Veterans, as well as others—"for let
no man fancy that he is safe from gyp
schemes"—are warned by this new
Public Affairs Pamphlet to watch out
for such swindles as partnership rac
kets, "territorial rights" for a patented
product, fake schools, and the planta
tion racket that promises a life of
ease on the income from "your golden
orange grove."
Apparently we like to be fooled, for
gyps and swindles mulct the public
of more than a hundred million dol
lars a year, we are told.
Of the more than five hundred
frauds that the Better Business Bu
reaus have run down, Dr. Foster ex
plains some of the most popular and
most "effective": repair rackets, door
to-door deceivers, lucky charms, tricky
advertising, illegal money lending, get
rich-quick schemes ranging from fur
farms to oil gushers, and "still more
ways of losing your money."
One by one, the danger signs are
pointed out on the "many advertised
roads to health, riches, and big bar
gains."
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The warning is clear: "Use the
available sources of information," the
author cautions. "Heed the warnings
of the Better Business Bureaus:
Read before you sign—and
keep a copy. Before you invest
—investigate."
Both the first-rate sucker who falls
for the century-old Spanish prisoner
fraud and the average bewildered con
sumer who doesn't get his money's
worth will profit from a careful read
ing of the fourteen Don'ts and the
twenty-six Bewares at the conclusion
of the pamphlet.
GYPS AND SWINDLES, by Wil
liam Trufant Foster, is No. 109 in the
series of popular, factual, ten-cent
pamphlets issued by the Public Af
fairs Committee, non-profit, education
al organization at 30 Rockefeller
Plaza, New York 20, N. Y.
Related Public Affairs Pamphlets
are Read Your Labels, Credit for Con
sumers, Loan Sharks and Their Vic
tims. Instalment Selling—Pros and
Cons, Credit Unions, How to Buy Life
Insurance, and the Veteran's Guide.
Veterans Reject
Antiunion Move
Chicago (ILNS).—The American
Veterans of World War II in conven
tion here rejected a resolution brand*
ed by a veteran as a direct attempt
"by unscrupluous management to
break up the closed shop system."
The resolution, introduced by the
Texas delegation, said: "No veteran
shall be required to join any organi
zation as a condition of employment."
A resolution offered from the floor
and unanimously approved condemned
"in their entirety the utterances of
Senator Bilbo, of Mississippi, refer
ring to discrimination of race, color
or creed" as being "diametrically op
posed to the principle" of the organi
zation.
Recording of popular radio pro
grams-r-some commercials—are being
sent to American prisoner of war
camps by War Prisoners Aid of
YMCA, a member agency of the
National War Fund.
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