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VOL. XLVI. No. 10
Washington, D. C.—The Senate re
fused to accept President Truman's
appeal for the most drastic powers
over labor ever sought by the White
House, sharply modified his proposal
and sent the measure to the House by
S 61-to-20 vote.
Striken from the bill in the form in
which it finally was approved by the
Senate were President Truman's pro
posals including:
1. Power to draft into the armed
forces within 24 hours of his procla
mation of an emergency any individ
uals necessary to operate Government
seized properties and who refused to
#ork killed 70 to 13.
42. An entire section of the bill which
would permit the Federal Treasury
to take profits of seized industries
during the period of Government op
eration.
3. Automatic dismissal and with
drawal of seniority rights of any em
ploye who strikes against the Govern
ment. Penalties remaining against in
Bividual workers would be temporary
withdrawal of Wagnner Act guaran
tees, and possible court action.
4. The bill was clarified to make
eertain that only employers and union
leaders—but not employes generally
-—would be subject to criminal pen
duties.
In his appearance before Congress
the President had proposed:
1. After Presidential declaration of
a "national emergency," the employ
Ors or union officials responsible
ihould take "appropriate, affirmative
action" to terminate the work stop
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2. Resort to court action to compel
operation of the projects and to seek
Aamages.
3. Employes failing to return to
work would lose Wagner Act protec
tion seniority rights.
4. Power for the President to draft
Into the armed forces strikers who re
fused to return to work.
5. Authority for the President to
fix wages and conditions of employ
ment during the period of Government
operation.
6. Any profits during Government
operation would revert to the Federal
treasury.
The changes, engineered by admin
istration leaders only after it appear
ed certain the bill would be scrapped
in its original form because of its
drastic provisions, saved the measure
from recommittal by the narrow vote
of 42 to 40 toward the end of a 13%
taour session.
The bill was returned to the House
Hhere, in a burst of anti-strike hys
teria, after President Truman's per
sonal appearance before a joint ses
sion of Congress, it had won almost
instant approval in the form which
he had requested.
With settlement of the railroad and
4pal strikes, however, the temper of
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President's Request For Complete Power Over American
Workers Rejected After Bitter Challenge In Senate
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perceptibly and there were indica
tions that the haste with which it was
first approved will not be witnessed
again.
A major-split in Republican ranks
in the Senate, following complete elim
ination of the section which would have
permitted Government seizure of pro
fits of seized properties, spared the
administration its worst threat of de
feat, the move to recommit.
An amendment by Senator Taft
(R.) Ohio to limit the President's seiz
ure powers to such vital industries
as utilities, transportation, coal, oil
and steel, failed, 45 to 35.
Senator Pepper (D.) Florida, a lead
ing foe of the bill throughout the
bitter Senate debate, led a liberal wing
fight to strip the bill of virtually
everything but its seizure powers, but
the Republican group which had helped
sink the labor draft deserted almost
enmasse. Pepper's move to strike out
all of Section 6, removing at one blow
the last of the penalties against strik
ing workers themselves, was defeat
ed, 66 to 12.
Other amendments rejected includ
ed these:
By Senator Ball (R.) Minnesota to
deny the President power to make
wage terms with striking workers
in seized industries, rejected 52 to 28.
By Senator Capehart (R.) of In
diana to permit the President to set
wages up to the limit employers were
willing to go, rejected by voice vote.
By Senator Downey (D.) California,
empowering the President to call on
employers to increase production
where needed, with authority to seize
plants where this request was reject
ed, defeated by voice vote.
By Senator Murray (D.) Montana to
eliminate authority to enjoin either
leaders, their agents or individual
workers who strike against the Gov
ernment, defeated 61 to 19.
Lauche To Speak At Oxford
Oxford, Ohio.—Governor Lausche
will be one of the speakers for the an
nual Buckeye Boys' State, sponsored
by the American Legion, which will
start on Mimia University campus
Saturday, W. L. "Pete" Deweese, dean,
announced.
The boys are being sent here by
Ohio's 303 legion posts as well as
other legion groups, including wo
men's auxiliaries and 40 et 8 Voitures.
Trades Council
A well attended meeting was held
by the Hamilton Trades and Labor
Council at the Labor Temple Tuesday
night and Ray Caldwell presided.
Several important communications
were read and received, and all bills
were allowed.
Reports on the progress of the com
ing picnic which will be held at
LeSourdsville Lake was made by the
committee. The next meeting will be
held June 25th. The sale of tickets
has been encouraging and delegates
are asking for another supply.
Millvillers At Norwood
Sunday
The Millville baseball team will play
the Norwood team at Norwood next
Sunday. The Millvxille boys have been
playing some pretty games.
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Discussing the effects of the Case
Bill, Mr. Green declared:
"I do not see how we can function
successfully if it becomes law."
Mr. Green delivered these two sting
ing indictments against specific pro
visions of the Case Bill:
1—He charged that Congress is
making "permanent" its "monumental,
temporary mistake" contained in the
Smith-Connally Act by providing for
compulsory so-called "cooling off"
periods which forment strikes instead
of preventing them.
2—He alledged that the Case Bill,
by authorizing damage suits against
labor organizations, proposes to re
enact in America a thousand-fold the
oppressive practices which shocked
the American people in the Danbury
Hatters' case.
In that case, he told the union dele
gates, members of their own organi
zation had their homes sold out from
under them in order to satisfy judg
ments found against the hat workers
in Danbury, Conn.
Employers could harass unions to
extinction, if the Case Bill becomes
law, by tying them up with litigation
and forcing them to spend all their
funds and time in defending damage
suits, Mr. Green said. Lawyers would
have a year-'round "open season" in
pressing such damage suits, whether
they had any justification or not.
Mr. Green also leveled severe criti
cism against the provisions of Presi
dent Truman's emergency strike con
trol bill, but said its effect would be
limited because it applied only to
cases where the Government had seiz
ed industries.
Nevertheless, Mr Qeeen declared
that even with the amendments adopt
ed by the Senate this bill would per
mit the Attorney General to revive
Government by injunction and jail
union leaders and strikers. He said
the measure was "ill-advised" and un
necessary because the strike emergen­
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Green Demands Truman
Veto "Vicious" Case Bill
Warns Nation Measure Would Kill Free Labor Movement
In America Sees Danger In Pending Legislation
New York City.—AFL President
William Green publicly called upon
President Truman to veto the obnoxi
ous Case Bill which is designed to
destroy the labor movement in Amer
ica.
In a challenging address to the fifth
biennial convention of the United Hat
ters, Cap and Millinery Workers In
ternational Union here, the AFL chief
warned:
"If the President signs this bill, the
seven million members of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor will be rebels
as long as it remains on the statute
books of the Nation.
"We will never accept it willingly.
We will carry on an unyielding fight
to have it repealed.
"We will use our political strength
to the utmost to elect members of
Congi^ess who will vote to repeal such
abhorrent legislation."
cies it was intended to cope with
have passed."
After reviewing labor's contribu
tions to victory in the war and noting
the drop in "take-home" pay after
V-J Day, Mr. Green remarked that
strikes must be expected in a period
of drastic economic changes, although
"all of us deplore strikes."
The AFL aims to minimize strikes
in favor of conference-table settle
ments, he said. But, he added, when
employers "sit as a negative force
in a collective bargaining wage con
ference and refuse to yield even to the
slightest degree, what can the work
ers do?"
"I think a clear investigation of
many of the causes of these strikes
will show that the employers who par
ticipated in the conferences were as
much or more to blame for the strikes
than were the workers who partici
pated in the strikes," Mr. Green re
marked. "And now as a result of it all
we have before Congress some most
vicious legislation."
Mayor O'Dwyer, arriving to greet
the 160 delegates as Max Zaritsky,
president of the union, was expressing
views similar to those of Mr. Green,
drew prolonged applause by declaring:
"Labor insists on holding its gains."
The Mayor urged the convention to
go on record in favor of extending the
Office of Price Administration's life
with its present powers and of es
tablishing a permanent Fair Employ
ment Practices Commission.
Mr. Zaritsky, whose annual report
to the convention calls for continuation
of the union's wartime no-strike pledge
during the reconversion period, held
that an "old and familiar partner" is
evident in current anti-|strike and
labor-control legislation.
He said that "enemies of the labor
movement" wish to destroy organized
labor in order to regain special privi
leges they "enjoyed not so long ago,"
and have acquired a "powerful and
eager ally" in the present Congress.
"In our moment of bewilderment
and despair, we instinctively turn our
eyes with hope and expectation to
the White House," Mr. Zaritsky de
clared. "We had become accustomed
in past years to look to its occupant
for guidance, for understanding, for
wisdom, for advice and for leader
ship."
Stressing his belief in Mr. Trumanfe
fundamental friendship toward organ
ized labor, he asked: "Please, Mr.
President, get rid of your advisors, at
least some of them. They ill-advise and
mislead you. They havfe fallen the
victim of the hysteria cooked up by
the enemies of democracy."
A message from President Truman
to the union—formed li2 years ago
with the merger of two old-time, com
peting AFL unions—was distributed
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at the opening session. Addressed to
Mr. Zaritsky, it read:
"Kindly convey to the delegates to
your fifth convention my sincere wish
es for a successful meeting. To this
first peacetime convention your or
ganization brings a long series of suc
cesses in dealing with problems of in
dustrial and human relations, coupled
with a record of wholehearted cooper
ation with our country in her hour of
need. I feel sure that with the exper
ience and inspiration drawn from this
background you will include with the
plans for the future progress and
well-being of your members a con
tinuing devotion to the common good
during the years to come."
Armco Will Build
New Coke Ovens
Twenty-five new coke ovens, cost
ing $1,275,000, are to be constructed
at Hamilton by the American Rolling
Mill, officials of the firm announced
Monday. In addition the company plans
to spend $300,000 on repair of present
ovens.
Construction is to be commenced
within a few weeks on the new ovens.
It is expected that the better part of
a year will be required to complete
the project.
WELL ADVISED
"Say! Who told you that you could
neglect your office duties just because
I kiss you every now and then?"
"My lawyer." —Exchange.
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Disappointed at the small reduction
in the 1947 Miami conservancy levy,
officials of the county, city and school
system are planning to confer in Daqp
ton with conservancy officials.
The decrease totals $37,600 for
Hamilton and $1,000 for the rural
areas. R. H. Smith, County Auditor,
said the reduction would save Hamil
ton property owners only 50 cents on
each $1,000 valuation and bills for
those in the rural areas would be vir*
tually unchanged.
Hamilton Horse Show
The Hamilton Horse Show will again
be held at the Butler County fair
grounds, Saturday, July 6 and Sun
day, July 7. Thousands of people from
this section of the country will be
here to attend this mammoth horse
show.
Middletown Needs 1,150
Workers
Middletown, Ohio.—A need for 1,150
more workers by the end of the month
was seen here after a survey among
eight Middletown industrial concerns,
according to P. F. Johnson, manager
of the U. S. Employment Service Of
fice here.
Steps Taken To Boost
Lumber Production
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Joint
action by the National Housing Agen
cy and the Department of Agriculture
is expected to add between 250 and
350 million board feet to this yearns
output, between 650 and 800 million
to next year's production, and to chan
nel into housing additional millions of
board feet which might otherwise be
diverted to other uses. The program
calls for building access roads to re
mote government timber stands, over
cutting national forest timber lands
as was done during the war, and
awarding bids in the sale of national
forest timber to tie bidders whose
output will result in maximum produc
tion of types of lumber needs for the
veterans emergency housing program.
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FUNERAL DIRECTOR
YOU have been discharged
from the Army—if you held
a
grade and wish to retain it—if
you have dependents then
act
now. June 30, 1946,
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the last day 011 which you can
enlist in the Regular Army and
still take advantage
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A BIG DATE
FOR ARMY MEN!
Family allowances for your
dependents will be continued
throughout your enlistment
only if you enter the Regular
Army before July 1, 1946.
If you have been discharged
from the Army aud wish to re
enlist at your old grade, you
must enlist within 00 days after
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