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Murray and Lesinski
Plead For Defeat Of
Slave-Labor Measure
Washington, D. C.—In a joint
statement, one of the most con
demnatory emanating in recent
years from members of Congress
against a Senate-House conference
agreement1 on a major legislative
decision, Senator Murray of Mon
tana and Rep. Lesinski of Michi
gan, both members of the con
ference group, branded the anti
labor bill compromise “had leg
islation and a milestone on the
, road back” for American work
ers. ,
“In our opinion,” they declared,
“the Conference Committee has
made a bad piece of legislation
' worse. We have previously
Stated that this legislation will
cause domestic strife and uncer
tainty and that it will be used
abroad to discredit American in
stitutions and marking a reaction
ary, anti-labor trend.
“The weakening of the Wagner
unless we act
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AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
and Norris-La Guardia Acts, the
impediments placed in the way of
legitimate trade union activity,
the denial of settled rights,
“would constitute a major set
back to labor, they said.
Emphasizing that the Senate
House conferees “have worsened
rather than improved the pro
posed legislation,” the joint state
ment of the two members ot the
Conference Committee warned :
“The conferences have added
further restrictions on the right
of unions to conduct their intei
nal affairs. They have added
further provisions to hamper and
frustrate the operation of the La
bor Department and have set np
a labor czar within the National
Labor Relations Board.
“They have strengthened the
positions of Communists in the
labor movement by visiting a pen
alty—non-recognition of the union
—upon anti-Communisfts, non-C'em
munists and Communists alike.
“Trade _ unions are denied the
right to engage, like other or
ganizations, in political activity..
Statements by employers, unlike
those of all other citizens, art not 1
to be used in evidence. In an
attempt to outlaw' ‘feathei-1 ed |
ding,’ the bill restores the -j:e< <1- !
up.
“The conference bill ig net cdy
bad legislation—-it is worse ec
onomics.
“It goes to the very root cf our j
critical economic situation. It I
must therefore be judged ty ts
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ANTIOCH POWER GRANTS
UMW FURTHER BENEFITS
Indianapolis, Ind.—District 50
of the United Mine Workers
(AFL) has signed a new contract
with employes of the Ant’oeh
Power Co., Inc., here, granting
wage increases of seven cents an
hour across-the-board; shift pre
mium of five cents a hour, six
paid holidays; the company to
pay for the cost of a telephone in
an employe’s home where he is
liable to be called for emergency
work; $25 bonus at Christmas
for all employes of more than two
year’s service; one week’s vaca
tion after a year of employment,
two weeks after two years; em
ployes entering the armed forces
to receive two weeks’ pay and
the families of men killed while
in the armed services to receive
to weeks* pay and men trans
ferred even temporarily, to high
er rated jobs, • to receive pay at
the higher rate.
2 PAINTER ORGANIZERS DIE
San Francisco, Calif.—A serious
blow was felt by labor in the
deaths of Thomas C. Meagher,
general organiser for the Inter
national Brotherhood of Painters,
Decorators and Paper Hangers
(AFL), and Ray Gilston, a mem
ber of the same organization and
international organizer for the
Southern California area.
effects on our economic future.
If there is any mandate this Con
gress has from the American peo
ple it i^ a mandate to avoid the
mistakes of 1929—to prevent the,
ieturn of bread-lines ard apple
stands.
“Already the first signs of re- \
cession are appearing. Business i
loaders have begun to dig ec-.
onomic storm cellars. The basic
cause of the recssion is the fail
ure of wages to keep pace with
prices and profits. The gap be
tween wages on the one hand and
prices and profits on the other
is widening. Any measure, there
fore which is calculated to‘pre
vent labor from moving to nar
row the gap, merely ensures and
accerelates an economic recssion
of the utmost gravity to democ
racy at home and to our relations
abroad.
“No propaganda can convince
the American people that we have
ever been' ‘picketed’ into a reces
sion or ‘struck’ into a depression.
The American people know that
we are speculated into panics and
profiteered into depressions. They
will not long be deceived by the
hollow slogan that labor has be
come too strong.
“The conference report, because
it is self-defeating, unfair, and
undemocratic, is bad legislation.
Because it strengthens every
tendency in American life toward
industrial concentration and prof
iteering, while it weakens the
chief agency that protects the
purchasing power of American
consumers, ii is bad economics.
"We fervently hope that the
President will exercise his con
stitutional ppwer to veto this leg
islation, and that an informed and
aroused public will make its pow
er felt to defeat Anally this re
actionary measure.” ,
As this edition was about to go
to press, both House and Senate
were planning on swift approval
»f the conferees’ report, with
prospects that the compromise
measure would be placed on Pres
ident Truman’s desk this week.
Woll Given 1947
Clendenin Award
Phladelphia. — Matthew Woll,
Second Vice President of the
American Federation of Labor
and President the AFL Union
Label Trades Department, was
presented with the 1947 Clenden
in Award of the Workers Defense
League in recognition of his
strong leadership against slave
labor throughout the world.
The presentation was made at a
dinner here of the WDL, keynoted
by an address by Mr. Woll in
which he vigorously reiterated his
determination to fight for free
labor.
“Millions of men and women
are being held in bondage,” Mr.
Woll declared. “This expanding
system of slave labor is a dire
threat to the free workers of all
countries,” he said pointing out
that in Russia alone from ten to
fifteen millions are being held
in slave labor camps "merely be
cause they are suspected of dis
approving or convicted of dis
agreeing with the Party bosses.”
He .also stated that even in
democratic countries, such as
England and France, “there are
many hundreds of thousands of
war prisoners living in and suf
fering conditions of forced la
Commending the Workers Defense
League for its efforts to defend
the rights of labor and of all
minority groups, Mr. Woll ended
his address with a ringing chal
lenge to work “for a world free
from hunger, misery, secret po
lice, prison labor, concentration
camps, forced, indentured, slave
labor, fear, incessant humiliation
and degradation of the individual
and peace aitiungst the peoples of
the world and-the abolition of re
sort to arms by one nation against
another.”
Twelve others on the .organiza
tion’s honor roll also attended the
dinner, sponsored by AFL Presi
dent William Green and hundreds
of others prominent in the labor
and progressive movement.
Among those honored were Har
ry Lorin Binsse, editor, Common
weal; Harry Block, Philadelphia;
George S. Counts, New York, di
rector of the division of the
foundations of education and pro
fessor of education at Teachers
College, Columbia University;
Mrs. Carrie Dilworth, organizer,
and C. H. Bolden, chairman Delta
District Council National Farm
Labor Union, Arkansas; Mrs. |
Luella S. Halversen, Fort Lauder
dale, Fla., retired teacher; Fran
ck Heisler, Chicago, labor at
torney; Phil Heller, New York,
director, International Solidarity
Committee; Sabtiro Kido, at
torney, Los Angeles; Herbert
Mahler, (New York, secretary,
Kentucky Miners Defense Com
mittee; Dr. Von - D. Mizell. Fort
Lauderdale, surgeon and Florida
WDL president; and Dean Leon
A. Ransom, Washington, D. C.,
attorney.
In addition to Mr. Woll, speak
ers at the dinner included A.
Philip Randolph, toastmaster;
NSrman Thomas, William L. Batt,
Jr., and M. Herbert Syme, eo
chairman of the dinner committee;
Nathaniel M. Minkoff, who pre
sented the Clendenin plaque to)
Mr. Woll; Max Delson, who pre
sented scrolls to those on the
Honor Roll; and Morris Milgram,
WDL national secretary.
Congratulatory telegrams and
messages were received from a
number of outstanding people, in
cluding Senators Irving M. Ives,
Leverett Saltonstall, Wayne
Morse, William Langer, and Rob
ert F. Wagner, and many labor
ami c:vic leaders, among whom
were David Dubinskl, Isarel Fein
berg, J. A. Beirne, Sam Eubanks.
Rev. James Myers, and Max Za
ritsky.
RAIL SCHOOL UNION GIVEN
25% RAISE. OTHER BENEFITS
Scranton, Pa.—Employes of the
Railroad Department of the Inter
national Correspondence Schools
of this city have recently signed
an agreement covering working
conditions, salaries and the hand
ling of grievances. These em
ployes were organized under the
International Federation of Tech
nical Engineers, Architects and
Draftsmen’s Unions, Local 200
(AFL).
The contract covers a 25 per
cent wage increase, guaranteed
weekly expenses, vacation with
pay, seniority, methods of hand
ling grievances and conditions of
employment retroactive to August
5, liHd.' This is the only all
union group of employes render
ing technical education service
to the organized labor member*
ship on American railroads.
KILLED BY MINE BLAST
Washington, D. C. — W’illianr
Henry Patterson, mining engineer
and former Columbia University
athlete, died as a result of in
juries incurred in a mine explo- j
sion in Michigan. His age was
3.1.
Mr. Patterson had been working
for the Copper Range Mine near
Ontonagon, in northern Michigan1
for six weeks and was .still on
terminal leave from the Navy. 1
WOLL’S SON JOINS FADWXK
NEW SET-UP FOK VETS
Washington, D. C.—J. Albert
Woll, U. S. Attorney for the
Northern Illinois District, has be
come a law partner of, Joseph A~
Padway. General Counsel of the
American Federation of Labor,
and o( several affiliated unions.
Mr. Woll is a son of Matthew*
Woll, a vice president of the
AFL.
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