JOURNAL CORRESPONDENT ASKS
DOES C. L 0. PRACTICE WHAT IT
PREACHES? OTHER QUESTIONS ALSO
To Editor Charlotte Labor Journal:
The C. I. O. leaders claim that
they are not in favor of disrupting
or destroying any legitimate trade
union. I know of several instances
in which we can prove they do not
practice what they preach. On Au
gust 5, 1937, The Industrial Leader,
of Winston-Salem, N. C., carried
this announcement by R. R. Law
rence: “Twelve new organizers have
been added to the staff, increasing
the number of the corps to nearly
fifty. This is the answer to those
critics who have tried to make it
appear that the C. I. 0. campaign in
the Carolinas is folding up.”
The drive, which has been confin
ed largely to the organization of tex
tile and hosiery workers, will now in
clude furniture workers, bus, trolley,
and truck drivers, radio, telegraph
and telephone employes, miners and
lumbermen, to which other types of
workers will be added later.
Mr. Lawrence said the number of
field representatives will be increased
as the campaign gains momentum.
This action has been planned for sev
eral weeks, and the annointment was
made by John L. Lewis, of the C. I.
O., with the sanction of A. Steve
Nance, of Atlanta, Southern Direc
tor of the C. I. 0. In a statement
given to the press he said that the
Committee of Industrial Organiza
tion plans an immediate and thor
oughgoing organization of workers
among several classifications of labor
in North and South Carolina. Now
this does not seem to me they prac
tice what they preach. Of course my
international organization is on the
fighting front and as I have repeat
edly stated, we have ..never experi
enced such prosperity. The great
curse of the C. I. O. to the trade un
ion movement is that they have not
confined themselves to the mass pro
duction industries, but those volun
teer organizers, endeavoring to make
jobs for themselves, have interfered
with the legitimate trade unions that
have been doing business for years,
and have encouraged some of the
members to have their legitimate un
ions by promising them officership,
or in other words, promising them
jobs in the C. I. O. Five and ten
cent organizers. All tending to cre
ate dissension within the legitimate
labor movement. The question of
mass production organizing now, in
sofar as the C. I. 0. is concerned, is
a thing of the past. What is now
obtaining through the multitude of
the C. I. O. organizer is mass de
struction. I do not desire to have
this article misinterpreted as a plea
looking for any quarter because I in
tend to fight back in every instance
as I have done for the past four or
five months, against the enemies of
Labor, including the manufacturers’
asosciations who hired spies and de
tectives to destroy our union. It is
true there are many men in the C. I.
O., especially the old time leaders,
who disclaim any knowledge of what
is going on, but they can not de
ceive intelligent men, and they have
made no attempt whatever to stop
the destruction of laobr unions by
the riff-raff that are out in many in
stances representing me 1. U.
there are some old time trade union
ists representing the C. I. 0. that are
endeavoring to do the best they can,
but they are outnumbered by the agi
tators, the Communists, the radicals
and the wild-eyed reformers who al
ways flock anywhere they can de
stroy. And whether they are paid
or not in some instances, make very
little difference as long as they are
preaching the destructive propa
ganda. In a conference in Cincinnati,
which was called by the American
Federation of Labor, Daniel J. Tobin,
President oft he Teamsters and
Chauffeurs International Union, said
he believed many of the leaders in
the C. I. O. were not Communists and
were not in favor of some of the
things that 'were done, but in addi
tion to that statement it can now be
stated clearly that those same lead
ers certainly do nothing to stop the
“undesirables” from coming into the
C. I. O. and from taking hold of the
reins in certain districts and running
teh ship themselves. It is a well
known fact that those that never be
longed in the labor movement, never
were real workers in the cause of the
masses, are now out in the front
ranks preaching the destruction of
the legitimate labor movement, mak
ing all kinds of false promises to the
innocent multitude of workers who
listen to their impossible doctrines
and are somewhat influenced by their
illegal un-American preachings. I
have no sympathy with Tom Girdler
or with his kind because they have
fought the American Federation of
Labor as they are now fighting the
C. I. O., and were the A. F. of L. in
the place of the leaders of the C. I.
O. now we would be as bitterly as
sailed by the newspapers and by the
officials of the independent steel
companies. My sympathy goes out to
the multitudes of workers in the steel
mills and in other such industries
that have been crushed for years and
prevented from organizing. At the
same time I can not close my eyes to
the fact that the leaders of the C. I.
O. are responsible for the demoraliz
ing conditions existing among the
workers, where men—union men—
are fighting each other instead of
fighting the common enemy. If con
ditions keep on as they are now, the
enemies of labor, the Tom Girdlers
and his kind, will have no need to
worry, because Labor will destroy it
self as it has done in other countries
by its internal fighting and bitter
ness. Such conditions as have re
cently been witnessed in many of the
large industrial centers, where strikes
of groups of workers have taken
place and where crimes have been
committed against union men and
against the innocent public, will
bring about the downfall of those
groups if they continue. Unfortu
nately the legitimate trade unions,
those that have been doing business
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with their employers ofr many years,!
will perhaps suffer as a result of the
enactment of adverse laws by the
state governments and by the na
tional government. Conditions in
many centers in the middle west
have been bordering on revolution,
and it has been predicated by false
leadership in many places, who were
appealing to the prejudices of the
masses. I am of the opinion at this
time that some of the men that are
leading the C. I. O. organisation are
building up around themselves a
Frankeinstein that may destroy them.
As I have said before, the newspa
pers can build you up but the news
papers can also tear you down. And
in the breaking down of the move
ment the masses of the workers will
suffer. You can justly ask, what is
the answer? There is no answer at
this time because a few leaders that
a few years ago were not heard of
have taken control of the situation
and refused to consider the interests
of the masses of the toilers of the
nation. How long it will last no one
knows, but one thing is certain, the
toilers will not go forward under
present tactics. They are more like
ly to go backward as they have done
in other countries because of their
refusal to eliminate from amongst
them false, insincere, volunteer lead
ers who are gloating for publicity
.at the expense of the toiler. One
thing is also certain, that the time
will come when many of those leaders
will be depised by the workers for
some of the things that have hap
pened. In the meantime I advise the
members of the American Federation
of Labor to be on the job night and
day, watching, protecting and defend
ing their unions and the conditions
that we have won for the past fifty
years by the innumerable sacrifices
we have made.
Fraternally yours,
H. L. Me.
Jewelry Workers
Win Pay. Raise
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Tremendous
gains from all over the nation are be
ing reported to headquarters here of
the International Jewelry Workers’
Union, it was learned through S. E.
Beardsley, general secretary-treasur
er of the union.
Wide interest was attached to the
announcement recently of new agree
ments secured with the Gorham Man
ufacturing Company and the Diamond
Silver Company both numbered
the nation’s largest producers of
silverware.
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C. L 0. Plant Closing
Leaves Town With
“Bare Coffers”
GIBBSBORO, N. J., Aug. 22.—
Residents of this 200-year-old rural
South Jersey town are hoping for the
early reopening of its one industrial
plant, which has paid cash for labor
for the last 88 years—the Lucas
Paint Company.
The plant, a subsidiary of the
Sherwin-Williams Company, was
closed after the C. I. O.’s lead, oil,
paint and varnish workers union won
an employe election and sought to
negotiate with the company. There
were some dismissals. ' The union
charged that they were made because
of union activities and called a
strike last May.
The town of 800, never overly
prosperous and still suffering from
the depression, was ripe for union or
ganization with the revival of busi
ness. Workers said they saw in un
ionization increased wakes to make
up for the lean years. Nearly 70 per
cent of the town’ sworkers were em
ployed in the plant. , But the shut
down didn’t fit into the picture.
Threatened by moneyless months
ahead and the increasing relief rolls,
the striking workers repudiated the
C. I. O., organized an independent
union, and won a large majority of
the workers.
“We tried to get the company to
negotiate with us,” said George
chairman of the independent union.
“But we failed. Then we appealed
to the National Labor Board.
“The company told us the plant
was closed because of financial rea
sons. But the truth is it won’t open
as long as the C. I. O. is holding a
club over it."
Without the union all labor would
still be the victim of the long day,
the insufficient wage and kindred
injustices. Under the present organ
ization of soceity, labor’s only safe
guard against a retrogression to for
mer inhuman standards is the union.
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