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Kaiser and others ap pears elsewhere in this issue.—Ed.] # WASHINGTON, April 11.—Legislation making certain strikes illewal. and participation in them a misdemeanor, is proposed by a Joint committee of the country’s two big management organisations, > Chrysler corporation spokesman said. . ' ... Speaking at a news conference of the Automotive Council for War Production. B. E. Hutchinson, • Chrysler vice president, said the taint croup from the National Association of Manufacturers and the United States Chamber of Commerce has agreed tentatively on the following five-point program of proposed laws: 1 Making it illegal to strike in an effort to coerce government agencies; this presumably would outlaw a strike intended to force the government’s hand in a wage dl*2?UM*aking it illegal to strike in an effort to prevent the use of labor-saving devices. S. Imposing a “definite respon sibility” on individual members •f labor unions for striking or picketing against a NLRB ruling, and making such activity punish-, able as a misdemeanor. 4. “Some kind of deterrent to strikes in violation of collective bargaining agreements,” and in violation of state or local laws. 5. Protection of workers in their right to stay on the job and move to and from their homes free from “coercion and molestation.” The, joint group, the Chrysler of ficial said, has not yet submitted its findings to the NAM and the U. S. Chamber. Hutchinson, declared his opposition to portions of the labor-management “postwar peace charter signed Dy heads of the APL and CIO and Presi dent Eric Johnston of the U. S. Chamber last month. Hutchinson declared the charter s guarantees of labor's right to organ ize and bargain collectively might be interpreted as a “freeze of present labor legislation” and thereby hamper any effort to pass laws aimed at “im proving” labor relations. When Eric Johnston, president of the U. S. Chamber, signed the pact with labor leaders, Hutchinson said, Johnston did not consult with the Chamber’s committee which even then was working with the NAM on the postwar law program. He said Johnston did not even “discuss for mally” the charter with the Chamber’s directors. A Chamber of Commerce spokesman said Otto Seyferth, chairman of the organization’s Labor Relations committee, was present and gave his indorse ment when Johnston announced the peace pact. He said also that the pact is to be submitted to the THE MARCH OF LABOR ' %«v FIRST RBCORVfO LABOR STRIKE IN AMERICA OCCURRED IN NEW TOR* »N 1677. THE UCENSED CARTMBR COMStHEO To REFUSE FuO. COMPLIANCE »vWEN ORDERED TO REMOVE CHAT PROM IRE Staffs FOR TMSg.-PeNCt A LOAD, eur when THREATENED wriH PiSCHARSE «U6MiTrtP AND PAID a FIN6. v J ■ _ iLAgofi. Sacks tue n6*1 T MSClSM — . meows/ HAPPINESS OF MEN CONSISTS [ IN LIFE . AND UFE IS IN lAEOR.* I I FARMER* MM MCfUASfP WOP pflDPUCriOI. * eveayuMB a ut*cn uea Mco -ocryoustaiMi a llOHl INI#CAMS OFOA&AMZIPlAfc*. "THIS 151MB HAT uytOM LA0CI r* iNSST Of* if/ TEXT OF CHARTER BETWEEN A.F.L. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE And C.LO. AS TO MANAGEMENT AND LABOR Following is the text of the charter entered into by represen tatives of the American Federation of Labor, the United States Chamber of Commerce and the CIO: We in management and labor firmly believe that the end of this war will bring the unfolding of a new era based upon a vastly ex panding economy and unlimited Opportunities for every American. This peacetime goal can only be attained through the united ef fort of all our people. Today, we are united in national defense. To morrow, we must be united in the national interest. Management-labor unity, so effective in boosting war production to unprecedented heights, must be continued in the postwar. .To this end, we dedicate our Joint efforts for a practical partnership within the framework of this code of principles: 1. Increased prosperity for all involves the highest degree of pro duction and employment at wages assuring a steadily advancing .standard of living. Improved productive efficiency and technological advancement must, therefore, be constantly encouraged. 2. The rights of private property and free choice of action, under a system of private competitive capitalism, must continue to be the foundation of our nation’s peaceful and prosperous expanding economy. Free competition and free men are the strength of our free society. 3. The inherent right and responsibility of management to direct the operations of an enterprise shall be recognised and preserved. So that enterprise may develop and expand and earn, a reasonable profit, management must be free from unnecessary governmental interfer ence or burdensome restrictions. 4. The fundamental rights of labor to organize and to engage in collective bargaining with management shall be recognized and pre served. free from legislative enactments which would interfere with or discourage these objectives. The process of collective bargaining be tween labor and management shall be encouraged and promoted. Through the consummation of collective bargaining agreements, dif ferences between management and labor shall be disposed of between the parties through peaceful means thereby discouraging avoidable strife through strikes and lockouts. 5. The independence and dignity of the individual and the enjoy ment of his democratic rights are inherent in our free American so ciety. Our purpose is to cooperate in building an economic system for the nation which will protect the individual against the hazards of un employment, old-age and physical impairments, beyond his control. 6. An expanding economy at home requires a vastly increased foreign trade. Arrangements must therefore be perfected to afford the devastated or undeveloped nations reasonable assistance to encour age the rebuilding and development of sound economic systems. In ternational trade cannot expand through subsidized competition among the nations for diminishing market* ’>ut can be achieved only through expanding world markets and the elimination of any arbitrary and unreasonable barriers. 7. An enduring peace must be secured. This calls for the estab lishment of an international security organization, with full par ticipation by all the United Nations, capable of preventing aggression and assuring lasting peace. Management and labor both agree that their primary duty is to win complete victory over Nazism and Japanese militarism. They also agree that they have a common joint duty, in cooperation with other elements of our national life and with government, to prepare and work for a prosperous and sustained peace. In this spirit they agree to set up a national committee, composed of representatives of business and labor organizations. This committee Will seek to promote an understanding and sympathetic acceptance of this code of prin ciples and will propose such national policies as will advance the best interests of our nation. Following is the Committee named at the outset to draw up the pact: For the American Federation of Labor—President William Green, Secretary-Treasurer George Meany and International Representative Robert J. Watt For the CIO—President Philip Murray, R. J. Thomas and Sidney Hillman. For industry—President Eric Johnston, of the U. S. Chamb er of Commerce; Paul C. Hoffman, president of the Stude baker Corp. and chairman of the Committee for Economic De velopment; Henry J. Kaiser, outstanding war industrialist; Otto Seyferth, president of the West Michigan Steel Foun dries; Edward J. Thomas, president of Goodyear Tire A Rub ber, and J. David Zellerbach, president of the Crown-Zellerbach Paper Corp.__ Chamber’s directors for approval or rejection at the board’s meet ing next month. The spokesman added that the five-point law program was spon sored by the NAM group and has gone no further than the committee, so fat as the Chamber is concerned. The automotive news conference was called to present the industry’s case against the unionisation of fore men—a movement sanctioned by a re cent decision of,the National Labor Relations board. C. E. Wilson, Gen eral Motors president, said such union ization represents encroachment on management functions, and declared it would “hinder war production and slow up postwar reconversion to ci vilian production." But the conference veered off into a discussion of postwar labor rela tions which quickly revealed that most of the council members present had major objections to the recent “peace charter.” “We certainly feel that this so called labor code should not be used to estop discussion of these vital questions,” Hutchinson added, refer UNITED TEXTILE WORKERS, A. F. OF L SIGN UP THREE GASTONIA PLANTS, INVOLVING OVER 1,200 WORKERS GASTONIA.—A contract between Local No. 12. United Textile Workers of America, and the Gastonia Combed Yarn Corporation. Gastmiia Processing company, and Gastonia Thread corporation, which employ more than 1 200 people in three Gastonia plants, has been concluded and is ndw in effect it was announced last week. The UTW is an affiliate of the Aajrrican Federa tion of Labor. Conclusion of the one-year contract was announced by Albert Cox, UTW international representative, and R. P. Seymour, president of Local No. 12. Job seniority, overtime pay, vaca tions _ with pay and other employe benefits are m the contract, including voluntary company maintenance ot union memberships, the point still in dispute in the Cocker Machine A Foundry company walkout, it was an nounced. Conclusion of contract negotiations between the union and the CDA man agement was completed following sev eral months of negotiations in the wake of an employe election last August. Local No. 12 was certified by ithe National Labor Relations Board as the collective bargagiing agent for CDA employes following the August election, in which the iunion received a majority of employe votes. Membership maintenance, which be came the last point disputed and is still disputed in the Oncker walkout, but which was included in the amic ably-concluded UTW-CDA contract negotiations, means that the com pany is automatically pledged to fire any union employe who quits the union during tne life of a manage- - ment-union contract, thus maintain ing union membership at a minimum of its present level while the contract is in force. RECORD OF MACHINISTS UNION IS LAUDED AT TESTIMONIAL TO PRESIDENT HARVEY BROWN i WASHINGTON, D. C.—Congress, for a change, resounded with praise of a labor union, when Rep. Hugh DeLacy of Washington called attention to the achievements of the International Association of Machinists in an eloquent speech. Himself a member of the union, the Congressman hailed the war production records broken by machinists in 8,000 key plants throughout the nation and the devotion of the membership to the no-strike pledge. Mis address on the floor of the House followed a testimonial dinner in New York City, to President Harvey W. Brown of the I.A.M. which was marked by tributes and commenda tions from President Roosevelt and leaders of labor and government agencies. The President, in a message to the dinner, congratulated Mr. Brown for “constructive, capable and outstand ing leadership in the labor movement" and said he joined with the union chief’s associates in “their praise of what your leadership has helped to accomplish in the production of many weapons of war with which we are overcoming the enemy on all fronts.” APL President William Green lauded Mr. Brown’s tenacity of pur pose and the attention given by the union, under his direction, to the re habilitation and re-employment of war veterans. Other speakers included Senator f Pepper, of Florida, and Adjutant Gen eral James A. Ulio of the U. S. Army. Responding to'-the eulogies, Mr. Brown called upon labor to solidify its ranks now so that American workers will be able to withstand the on slaughts of post-war developments. “Adequate wages are the only guar antee of continuity of employment and the only certain way of averting cre ation of new armies of unemployed,” he emphasized. "If wholesale unem ployment arises in this country again, our democratic institutions will stand in jeopardy.” OVER 200,000 TEACHERS HAVE LEFT SCHOOLS —V— GREENSBORO, N. C.—More than 200,000 of the “best prepared” teach ers have left the schools since Pearl Harbor. More accurately, they have been starved out. That, at least, is the claim of Pro fessor Charles W. Phillips of the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina. The crisis will become more acute when 60,000 more teachers disappear this year, with no replacements in sight, Phillips said. He added that teachers are leaving because they can obtain better wages in other employ ment fields. ring to the joint committee law pro gram. “We are very sympathetic in the auto industry to the ostensible pur poses of the agreement. But many of us are apprehensive that the code, be cause it is ambiguous, has in it the seeds of further discontent.” Tennessee State Federation Will Not Hold Meet i . . —V— Leon Medlin, Secretary-Treasurer of the Tennessee Federation of Labor land President of Nashville Teamsters’ and Chauffeurs’ Local Union No. 327, informs Ye Editor that the Conven tion of the Federation, originally ' scheduled to be held here on May 7th, 8th and 9th, has been postponed in definitely by action of the Executive Board which met in Nashville recent ly. This decision is in compliance with an order of the U. S. Office of De fense Transportation, which declined to issue a permit to hold the Conven tion since the number of Delegates to attend would far exceed the 50 Dele gates permitted by recent ODT regu lations. I The present Officials will remain in office until a Convention 'can be held.—Nashville Trades and Labor News. -V Tibetans drink each daily an aver age of forty cups of tea. 6,679 MEN ARE FURLOUGHED TO HELP WAR WORK —V WASHINGTON.—The exact numj her of enlisted men now on furlough to work in critical war industries was revealed by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson at his latest press confer ence as 6,679. They were so assigned because of emergency conditions which' threatened the delivery of highly critical war material, the secretary said. The breakdown of furloughed sol diers by industries was: Cotton duck, 1,109; heavy tires, 1,492; heavy artil lery ammunition, 3,031; construction of ammunition plants, 636; aluminum sheet, 612. In addition, 1,090 enlist ed men were released several months ago to work in foundries and forge shops. All but 175 of these men were initially release!! to the Enlisted Re serve Corps, and the 175 are cur rently being either transferred to the reserve or returned to their Army duties (based on the needs of the plants at. which they work and the desires of the men). -V Mucilage used on Uncle Sam’s post age stamps is made from sweet potato starch. IWJMMBjMu t AinUUMCB-A After recovering from shrapnel wounds. Marine PFC Russell - Halsey, 21. Roselle Park, N. J„ returned to acUon in the Tinian Islands, shot a Jap sniper but sustained a broken hip In the action. Twice War Bond funds have helped restore him to health, and Bonds bought and held are healing hun dreds of other service men’s wounds. Marine Sgt. Don Baird, Monmouth, IU., smiles because War Bonds bought and held at home speeded his recovery from arm wounds suffered in an attack across a dummy flight strip ai Saipan. A Jan 77 field uiece hit him. ' i* During beaching operations on a Pacific island, an LST struck a mine and Milton H. Fox, Mo. M. M., 1/C, 22. Sandusky, Ohio, sustained multiple fracture of both legs. War Bonds invested ia and held by folks at home have helped provide treatments that encourage him to look to the day when he will walk normally again. More invasions are being added almost daily In that area with more and more casualties, men who need all the treatment Bonds can supply. V " - ' ( .■■■■: . .v;
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