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me. Union. Washington Central Labor Union Leading Unions In Endorsing Pay RoU Savings WASHING!**, Feb. 21. (Special)—Leading Organized La bor of the nation in complete en dorsement of William Green’s let ter, to all AFL organizations, in support of the continuation of the Payroll Savings Plan, the Central Labor Union of Washington, D. C., and the Building Trades Union, one of its largest components, pledged their active support through resolutions adopted at their regular meetings and an nounced at the Washington C. L. U Business Agents luncheon re cently held at the Mayflower ho tel here. Principal „ speakers at the luncheon were Frank P. Fen ton, director of National Organiza 1 tions—AFL, and Robert W. Coyne, 1 national field director of the Gov ernment Savings Bond division ol 1 the U. S. Treasury. ' Mr. Fenton in addressing the Business Agents said in part, “In the beginning of the war period there was a strong urgent move ment for compulsory saving. When | the then Secretary of the Treas ury, Mr. Morgenthau, said that hr did not believe compulsion was necessary in *he savings program, this view was proven to be sound by the voluntary response of or ganized labor. This thinking did not come from members of the Congress, it came from the Ameri can workers. Trade unionists de cided the voluntary way was the best way and proved it. Now we : are asked again by Secretary Vin son to get behind a postwar bond drive in a voluntary way. I hope we will demonstrate in a volun tary way that the AFL will keep its pledge by doing everything we possibly can. We should do it be cause All of the movements going on in the world have serious im plications. One of the greatest looming dangers is inflation. 1 know how trade unionists act. W# should convince the American workers to buy all the bonds they can afford in order to prevent in flation and have a ‘cushion’ if it comes. The present forecast looks very bright—buC there 1s the pos sibility of a serious depression. If the unions will urge their members to buy bonds no*, they will have security to tide thorn over the de i pression and to maintain prosper ity-by purchasing power. Use this meeting or meetings similar to this to work up an organized campaign in tM~efty of Washing ton and m the nation to buy bonds aUd continue payroll art*!**/’* Mr. Coyne’ in giving full credit to the vital part Organised Labor has played in the success of the bond programs said, “I think this bond program must be understood —most people feel that it is a Treasury program, that by sup I porting the bond program they are doing something the Treasury has asked them to do. The bond pro gram was conceived by the Treas ury back in 1935, and carried out by the American workers.” "Mr. Fenton pointed out that this opinion that it is a Treasury program has been changed by the workers of the nation and it is l>e ing continued because of you and those whom you represent have come forward and said in effect, ‘we have built this program, it benefits the country, it benefits the workers and we want it continued.” 1 It was only after pressure was re ceived from business organiza : tions, labor unions, etc., that the ' Treasury consented to act as the I agent of the workers. I think I could prove to you, if I had the time, that the support and building of this program by American workers has been reason for its success." the the the The tempo of the response of the Washington Business Agents has encouraged U. S. Treasury La tor officials to uege similar meet ings of Central Labor bodies throughout the country. Smokey Says: um IS HOT WOSK-lj BUT tVtKYPOCr MAS TO HCgr rtrr our m Wildfire In the woods destroys s community asset u well as person al property. Good neighbors help fight fire whenever needed. Bo a good neighbor! Program, Primarily For Vets, Seeks Long-Range Solution Washington, D. C. An All-out emergency program to build 2,700.-1 l»00 now homes for veterans during | the next two years was announced ! by Housing Expediter Wilson W. j Wyatt. It forecasts the stopping of all deferrable and nonessential con struction to release labor and ma terials for living units costing - j for the most part — $6,000 and under. Congress is asked to authorize the immediate use of 600 million dollars in subsidies to spur produc tion of building material. program has the unqualified in dorsement of the administration. He urged its acceptance by Con gress and the public. AEL President William Green and Chairman Harr}' C. Bates, of the AFL, Housing Committee, promptly pledged their full sup port to the emergency .program. In a letter to the President they said: “Mr. Wyatt’s program requests that we do what seems to be im possible. The records show we did what seemed impossible when we were lighting to win the war. Organized labor shared unstinting - ly with others in the all-out ef fort to reach and Surpass what seemed to be unattainable goals. Please be assured that we will do what seems to be impossible again in order to meet the gvaveati emergency of peace.” Bi-partisan support of the hous ing program in Congress appeared certain after a conference by Wy att with members of the House Banking Committee, who agreed to expedite a measure carrying out the major recommendations of the emergency plan. Wyatt's major recommendations j and goals are: I—The starting of 1,200,000' homes this year. Of these, 700,- j 000 would be conventional in style,1 while 250,000 would be permanent I prefabricated houses, ami 250,000 would be temporary units. For 1047 the goal is raised to 1,500,000 homes. Of these, 900,000 a ould he conventional and 600,000 permanent prefabricateds. If recommended legislation is passed promptly enough to insure j high gear operation by end of President Truman fared the Pegler’s Column Dropped By Another Newspaper Washington, D. C. — Another newspaper — the Stamford (Con necticut) “Advocate,” with a cir culation of neurly 20,(KM) — has kicked out the column of West brook Pegler, because it can not stomach his misrepresentations. What brought matters to a head was a column in which Pegler grossly distorted a recent demon stration by all of Stamford labor in support of A bitter strike at the Yale A Towne Manufacturing Company in Stamford. All anions in the towns knocked off work for 3 hours so show their solidarity with the Machinists, who are resisting an attempt by the management of Yale A Towne to restore the “open shop.” The demonstration was entirely peaceful, but Pegler pictured it as a rally of “riotous forces” and "potential killers" in support ad “assault and anarchy.” The edi tor ran that column, but it was the last.. In an editorial, he ex plained why he decided to “kill” Pegler*! rantings for good. He pointed out that Pegler ‘from the vantage point of his | i home in Arizona or his New York hotel apartment," without even coming' near Stamford, had written an entirely false picture of the demonstration, and that in doing sc he had violated the basic stan. dards of fair reporting. As a result, the accuracy of all oth^r Pegler columns had become suspect, the editor said. As a further reason for ousting 'Pegler, the editor wound up bjr quoting one of the nation’s best known editors—Erwin Dean Can ham of the “Christian Science Monitor” — one the dangers to a free press arising from indiscrim inate use of unscrupulous column ists. “One aspect of newspaper irre sponsibility is the latitude grant ed to some syndicated columnists,” Canham declared. “To their doors is beaten a path by those motivated by malicious gossip, revenge and character as sissinatiou. And no tti*« j| safe from these weapons. . . . Will not this continual nursing of demo gogfc power la the bands of a few keyhole coumniau react against newspapers fa the long run?”
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