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Cincinnati*—In the interest of jus
tice and national prosperity, the Ex
ecutive Council of the American Fed
eration of Labor demanded substantial
•wage increases for the nation's work
ers.
AFL President William Green de
clared the federation will give its full
support to the efforts of all affiliated
unions to obtain higher wage rates.
He expressed the conviction that in
dustry is able to afford to pay wage
boosts of from 20 to 30 percent in
hourly rates without materially in
creasing prices.
Other news highlights developing
from the quarterly meeting of the
Executive Council included:
1. The council urged immediate re
duction in income taxes and empha
sized that personal exemptions should
be raised to pre-war. levels.
2. It expressed strong support of a
firm American foreign policy which
would assure lasting world peace by
according liberated nations the right
to freedom, democracy and independ
ence.
3. The AFL leaders drafted pro
posals to be submitted to the forth
coming labor-industry conference in
Washington for the establishment and
maintenance of peaceful and stable in
dustrial relations and the prevention
of strikes.
4. Unanimous endorsement was giv
en to the pending postwar housing
bill which would encourage a nation
wide housing construction drive and
create millions of new jobs.
5. Congress was also asked in no
uncertain terms to enact without delay
the Kilgore Unemployment Compensa
tion Bill, the Full Employment Bill
and amendments to the Fair Labor
Standards Act lifting the minimum
wage floor to 65 cents an hour im
mediately.
In discussing wage policy, the Ex
ecutive Council declared that the war
time wage freeze had wiped out parity
between static wage rates and boom
ing prices, resulting at the end of the
war in a 30 percent disadvantage to
labor so far as the relation between
hourly rates of pay and the cost of
living were concerned.
The council added: When we enter
ed this war to rid the world of political
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and economic despots we were assured
that nobody would be allowed to profit
unduly from the war—that there
would be no new crop of war million
aires. But the records of the profits
made during the war by industry and
business as a whole make that promise
as hollow as the promise made to labor
that its economic position would not
be allowed to deteriorate because of
its willingness to force the use of the
strike while our country was at war.
The current demands for wage in
creases are being opposed by these
same profit-makers on the grounds
that they are interferring with recon
version that they will increase prices
and start an inflationary spiral. The
charge comes with singular inappro
priateness from the very interests who
profited most during the war and
whose profits have already resulted
in prices which have taken from the
workers the meager wage increases
they received during the war.
"Instead of interferring with re
conversion, labor's demand for wage
increases—and their early realization
—is the best possible assurance of
sound and lasting prosperity in the
post-war period. Purchasing power is
an absolute essential to our mass pro
duction economy. We proved during
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the war that we have the resources,
the machinery and the manpower to
produce enough to raise living stand
ards above levels heretofore believed
possible. Our problem today is to dis
tribute pui'chasing power so that all
the people may receive the benefits of
our productive genius. The key to that
problem is higher wages.
"The degree of prosperity which
we shall have in this country follow
ing this war depends almost wholly
upon the degree of success which labor
achieves in its demands for higher
wages.
"Mr. Green told newsmen that the
AFL is not stipulating any national
percentage of increase in wages but
will leave that to its affiliated unions
which are in the best position to know
what conditions are in their own trade.
"But the American Federation of
Labor will support its affiliated na
tional and international unions to the
fullest extent in their efforts to se
cure substantial wage rate increases,"
Mr. Green said.
"Until we are shown otherwise by
facts, we believe the wage increases
can be paid out of profits without
need for higher prices."
Mr. Green said he believed affiliated
unions could obtain their demands in
most cases by collective bargaining
and other peaceful procedures.
"We are not in favor of promoting
strikes," he declared.
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AFL Urges British Gov't
The Victim's of Hitler's Oppressions Still Homeless and
Hopeless Without Freedom or Property or Rights
Cincinnati.—The Executive Council
of the American Federation of Labor
urgently appealed to the Labor Gov
ernment of Great Britain to act at
once in behalf of the oppressed Jews
of Europe, "whose plight has not re
ceived proper consideration since vic
tory," the Council said:
"We know that our friends in Great
Britain do not wish to prolong or re
peat the tragic mistakes of previous
British Governments on the issue.
"At the close of the first World War,
Great Britain solemnly promised to
establish Palestine as the Jewish na-
tional homeland. If that promise had
been carried out within a reasonable
time, untold suffering could have been
avoided and many thousands of Jew
ish lives could have been spared.
"Today the Jewish victims of Hit*
ler's terrible oppressions, those who
survived the mass slaughter which the
Nazis perpetrated, are still homeless
and hopeless. Shocking as it may seem,
most of them are still living in con
centration camps and have not regain
ed their freedom, their property or
their rights.
"After the reign of terror through
which they have passed, a large num
ber of European Jews will never again
feel safe and secure in the lands which
ostracized them. They seek a new
home, a haven and a refuge from tyr
anny, an atmosphere of peace and en
couragement.
"The great accomplishments made
by the Jews who were permitted in
the past to emigrate to Palestine in
the development of that country give
convincing evidence of a promising
future for that land under Jewish
dominion.
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"The American Federation of Labor,
which has always supported the cause
of a Jewish national homeland in Pal
estine, calls upon Great Britain now
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