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At the same time, the executive
council dispatched telegrams to the
House and Senate Labor Committees
urging rejection of the pending fact
finding bill backed by the administra
tion.
Since this bill, introduced originally
by Represenative Norton and Sena
tor Ellender, apparently enjoys the
highest priority for congressional con
sideration, the council listed four
cogent and specific reasons for its de
feat.
But fundamentally, the AFL lead
ers expressed objection to all of 160
pending antilabor bills which seek to
restrict the freedom of American
workers and their trade unions.
They emphasized that the difficul
ties confronting Congress in making
an intelligent decision on this flood of
proposals has become aggravated by
the clamor and pressure for hasty ac
tion to deal with the current strike
situation, precipitated by CIO unions
"Our nation is passing through a
critical period of postwar readjust
ment," the executive council declared.
"During the war our national econ
omy was dictated and rigidly con
trolled by the government. Our fun
damental objective now should be to
return as quickly as possible to a free
economy.
"The great danger is that Congress,
in an attempt to mitigate temporary
labor-management disputes, may im
pose permanent government controls
which would stifle freedom of enter
prise for labor and for management
for all time."
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enactment of antistrike legislation,
the AFL executive council advised
Congress to take a cooling-off period
itself before rushing approval of ill
considered measures which may make
matters worse.
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He indicated that the present legis
lative situation constitutes the great
est threat to labor's freedom in the
nation's history.
Instead of punitive or compulsory
legislation, Mr. Green called for a
hands-off policy by government and
full opportunity to labor and industry
to settle their differences through free
collective bargaining and voluntary
arbitration.
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The executive council also stressed
the same note when it warned Con
gress to "beware of throwing the
American way of life into reverse
gear."
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The council pointed out that gov
ernment regulation of labor-manage
ment relations is bound to develop
into compulsory arbitration that the
proposed fact-finding procedure will
inevitably become wage-fixing by the
government and that no government
agency can exercise wage controls
without having to perpetuate price
controls.
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Citing specific reasons for the de
feat of the Norton-Ellender Bill, the
council declared the compulsory cool
ing-off periods provided in the bill
would serve instead to warm up strike
sentiment among workers.
The council warned the bill would
revive court injunctions against la
bor and subject workers to the hated
doctrine of conspiracy, under which
2 or more workers, acting in concert,
are forbidden by law to perform ac
tions that are held legal for an indi
vidual worker.
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AFL Council Decries Drive
For Anti-Strike Measures
Make Matters Worse and
Strikes
AFL President William Green told
news men at a press conference that
the AFL is calling upon all its affili
ated state and local subsidiaries to
register their opposition to pending
antilabor bills with their representa
tives in Congress.
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Finally, the council pointed to the
example of the General Motors case
to prove that government fact-finding
boards will not limit themselves to
that narrow function but will try to
fix wages by recommending specific
settlements, thus undermining a free
economy.
While the Executive Council devot
ed most of its first session to anti
labor legislation, it has a crowded
agenda of major domestic and inter
national problems to dispose of during
its 10-day mid-winter meeting here.
To AU AFL Members Of
OPA Price Control Boards
January 1946 marks the fourth aA
niversary of the local OPA War Price
and Rationing Boards.
These Boards, which have made so
valuable a contribution to carrying
out OPA's wartime rationing and
price programs for four long years,
are manned by tens of thousands of
volunteers.
It is these volunteers, who during
this wartime period tirelessly and un
selfishly gave hundreds of thousands
of hours of their time in order to help
carry out this important domestic pro
gram of rationing and price control
that have done more than anyone else
to safeguard the incomes of American
wage-earners from the ravages of in
flation. These volunteers recognized
the nation's need in time of war and
zealously devoted themselves to this
important home-front problem. These
volunteers have earned and deserve
the gratitude of the entire nation.
Speaking on behalf of the entire
membership of the American Federa
tion of Labor, I want to express our
appreciation and gratitude to these
volunteer citizens who gave so gen
erously of their time and talents to
this important home-front task.
At the same time, I want to pay
special tribute to the many thousand
members of the A. F. of L. who have
devoted themselves selfishly to this
home-front battle who have, after
working long and hard at their war
time jobs, been determined to carry
on their important duties with their
local OPA boards and who have made
so substantial a contribution to the
success of these programs.
The A. F. of L. salutes its volunteers
for the enviable record they have made
and urges that they continue their
battle as home-front soldiers and serve
on these boards until all danger has
passed.
William Green
President
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of Labor
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NEWS AMD VIEWS
By ALEXANDER S. LIPSETT
(An ILNS Feature)
Every so often this column is
tempted to delve into the mysteries of
our economic system and examine the
solutions so copiously offered by the
social planners and their bureaucra
tic stand-bys in Washington. Not so
long ago Secretary Clinton Anderson,
in discussing the mechanization and
future development of our agricul
ture, described the process as a "verit
able revolution." He foresaw the day
when one man on the farm will pro
duce enough food and other products
needed by 10 fellow citizens in the
urban areas.
With developments like that in the
offing, steadily increasing efficiency
in the use of man and mechanical
power and the enormous progress in
the use of farm products for indus
trial purposes, it is natural that the
observer's mind should dwell on the
questions of overproduction and sur
plus. What to do with them is the
issue which the master minds are
continuously debating. The only an
swer they have been able to find—
and a fairly monotonous one at that
is one of artificial control and scar
city. Wasn't it only a few years ago
that the slaughter of 3 million little
pigs and the plowing under of valu
able crops were considered an effec
tive and justified remedy against the
evils of surplus?
Well, surplus, whether on the land
or in the factories, need not be our
national plague if we looked matters
straight in the eye and tried to solve
them in terms of greater mass con
gumption and utility. The answer to
growing production and efficiency
is increased consumption and new
markets. There is no other answer
Trade barriers, as advanced thinkers
have long contended, must be abolish
ed or reduced so substantially as to
make it possible to secure a proper
and continuous flow of our goods to
peoples in want or desirous of high
er levels of living. Whatever might
be said about the machine age and its
effect on the mind of man, the solid
fact remains that it has steadily cut
the cost of output, thus making it
possible to bring better products at
cheaper prices to people who clamor
for them.
There are other factors which must
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be considered in any evaluation of the
future develpoment of our agriculture
and industry. Refrigeration, dehydra
tion, canning, quick freezing are only
few of the methods which will go
long way toward disposing advan
tageously of our farm products above
and beyond domestic consumption.
Other steps lie in the direction of in
dustrial use—a combination of agri
cultural -industrial collaboration of
which only the bare surface has been
scratched.
It is well to realize that American
agriculture is not only passing
through a process of accelerated mech
anization, but into a chemical era as
well. Practically everything that
grows under and above the soil—from
peanuts to milk weeds and sweet pota
toes—has industrial uses of which our
fathers did not even dream. Con
sumers goods won from agricultural
byproducts—one need only think of
cellulose, resins, starches, etc.,—are
so numerous that it would take more
than the space of this column to fur
nish a half-way adequate list.
To be sure, there is and always will
be surplus, but only in a purely mech
anical and statistical sense. Whatever
agricultural product is unusable for
immediate and direct consumption can
and should be converted to industrial
purposes in the interest of the pub
lic, agriculture and industrial alike
This is the balance toward which we
must olok if we want to solve the
economic problems of tomorrow in
constructive and far-seeing sen
Here, and nowhere else, is the common
meeting for an economic union be
tween agriculture and industry, on
which the future of the United States
and the American people as a whole
depends.
Dime Date Moved Up
Washington. Secretary of the
Treasury Vinson announced that the
new Franklin D. Roosevelt dime orig
inally scheduled for circulation on Feb
ruary 5, would be released on January
30. The date was moved up to make
the release of the dimes coincide with
the birthday of the late President.
Aircraft Industry Hit
Hardest By Cutbacks
Washington, D. C.—Hardest-hit of
the industries which skyrocketed dur
ing the war is that of aircraft, the
Surplus Property Administration re
vealed.
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WOLL DEMANDS FIRM
STAND ON RUSSIA,
WARNS OF POLITICS
New York City.—AFL Vice Presi
dent Matthew Woll called upon the
government to stop "appeasing" So
viet Russia, advised labor not to de
pend on government or political par
ties to win its battles and proposed
that further labor-management con
ferences be held to extend the scope
of "industrial cooperation, mutual
trust and good-will."
In his annual message to the mem
bers of his own union, the Interna
tional Photoengravers Union, Mr.
Woll recommended that the United
States set forth its international poli
cies with complete frankness and can
dor. He described Stalin's foreign
program as "diplomatic agression"
and declared that any efforts at ap
peasement would be as unsuccessful
as the attempt to appease Adolf Hit
ler at Munich.
The same prescription should ap
ply to our relations with Great Brit
ain, the Netherlands and all other
foreign governments, the AFL leader
said.
Even in politics no one has yet
succeeded in finding an adequate sub
stitute for honesty," he observed.
The end of the war has dispelled
the hope of some labor leaders that
they could look upon the federal gov
ernment as "a sort of fairy god
mother" who would protect them from
the harsh facts of life, Mr. Woll said.
"The political honeymoon for labor
is now definitely over," he declared.
"From here out victory will go to
those unions which did not barter their
trade union birthright. And among
these, as any intelligent trade union
ist knows, are the unions of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
"Labor's strength lies in its own
organizations, in its own membership,
in its institutions, its press and in its
tried and trusted leadership. The AFL
has consistently adhered to this philos
ophy. It is the only safe and sound
policy for American labor. CIO pub
lications please copy."
He characterized the labor-man
agement conference recently held in
Washington under the auspices of
President Truman as "a step for
ward" in that it had given both sides
a better understanding of their mu
tual problems.
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