NEW YORK FEDERATION OF LABOR
ENDORSES FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT;
BARS REDS AND NAZIS FROM OFFICE
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y—The
New York State Federation of Labor,
in one of the greatest conventions of
its history, voted to endorse President
Roosevelt for re-election and to ex
clude Communists, Nazis and Fascists
from seeking or holding office in the
Federation.
The convention condemned the Fed
eral anti-trust prosecutions of labor
organizations and called upon the
Government “to put an immediate
stop to these attacks which have
served only to bring about undeserved
and unjustified sname to the labor
movement and which can have only
the effect of destroying the standards
of the building trades workers.”
Among the speakers at the conven
tion were President William Green
and Secretary-Treasurer George
Meany, of the American Federation
of Labor; Governor Herbert H. Leh
man, Mayor La Guardia, Senatoi
Heed and a large number of othei
public officials.
President Green declared that or
ganized labor will oppose conscription
until such time as the voluntary sys
tem of recruiting men for militarj
servive proves inadequate. The onlj
persons now opposing the defens<
program, he said, were the supporter!
of Hitler, Stadin and Muaoslini. He
emphasized that the AFL was “un
compromisingly behind the President
of the United States” in support of
national defense, and added:
“All that we ask in return is that
the standards that have been set up
as a result of our efforts—the wage
hour act, the Wagne ract, the Walsh
Healey act, social security laws, un
employment relief and vocational
education—that none of these stand
ards shal lever be lowered.”
Mr. Meany urged labor to cooper
ate in the defense program and to be
prepared to make sacrifices. Above
all, he added, “we must protect and
maintain the gains labor has made in
the legislative field in the last sixty
. years.”
The convention proclaimed its soli
darity .with the organized workers of
Great Britain in their struggle to de
feat Hitlerism.
Speaking for 1,300,000 unionists in
this State, the convention addressed a
formal cablegram to the British
Trade Union Congress, through Er
unest Bevin, Minister of Labor in the
Churchill Cabinet, pledging the full
moral support of the workers of New
York in Great'Britain’s contest with
Germany.
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A Labor Day Message To
White Collar Workers
By FRANK WEIKEL. President
American Federation of Office employes International Council
Labor Day, 1949, should be a day long to be remembered by the millions
of White Collar Workers in the United States. It should be something more
than a day of celebration in retrospect. It should be the day of awakening
llJ* of realisation that Labor gains hare come through organisation aw
affiliation with the American Federation of Labor.
t““ holiday in honor of Labor throughout our Nation, th.
j Collar Workers including bank employes and insurance agents, shoul<
definitely consider the many gains and improvements now enjoyed by their
fellow workers and dedicate themselves to the proposition that if they wish
to enjoy these same things for themselves they must take the same course
and organise into Inions in affiliation with the American Federation of
Labor.
For many years these so-called white collar workers have not been union
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felt secure in their ability to gain for themselves all that they wanted in the
way of improved working conditions. The events of the past few years have
exploded this theory as false and without tangible results. Employers have
taken advantage of this philosophy and as a result the White Collar Workers
of the nation today are a sorry lot. They have suddenly come to the realisa
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