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AFL ISSUES CONVENTION CALL (Continued From Page 1) gained a certificate of affiliation (charter), nt le:.st one month prior to the Convention; and no perron will he recognized as a delegate who is not a memlier in good standing of the organiza tion he is elected to repr< ent. Delegates must be elected at least two weeks previous to. the • Convention and their names for warded to the Secretary-Treas urer of the American Federation uf Labor immediately after their election. k Delegates are not entitled to -seats in the Convention unless the tax and assessments of their organization have been paid in full to August 31, 1948. The importance of our move ment, the duty of the hour and for the future, demand that ev ery organization entitled to rep resentation shall send its full quota of delegates to the Cin cinnati Convention, November 15, 194*. | CREDENTIALS Credentials in duplicate are forwarded to all altitiated unions. The original credential should be given to the delegate-elect and the duplicate forwarded to the American Federation of Labor Office, A. F. of L. Building,1 Washington, D. C. | The Committee on Credentials will meet at the headquarter* ofi the American Federation of La tor ten days previous to the opening of the Convention, and will report immediately upon the opening thereof at Cincinnati, here secretaries will observe the necessity of mailing the duplicate credentials of their respective delegates at the earliest possible moment to Washington, D. C. RESOLUTIONS—TIME LIMIT The provisions of the A. F. of L. Constitution, Article III, Sec tion 6, require all resolutions, petitions, memorials and appeals to be received by the Secretary Treasurer of the American Fed eration of Labor, at Headquarters in Washington, I). C., 30 days im mediately preceding the opening of the Convention; EXCEPT in instances where such resolutions, petitions, memorials, appeals, etc., proved at a regular convention have been acted upon and ap a National or International Union or State Federation of Labor, held during this 30-day period, in tyhich event such proposals shall be received up to five days prior to the convening date of the Con vention of the American Feder ation of Labor. Resolutions of State Federa tions of Labor must first have received the approval of the prev DON HILL INSURANCE AGENCY INSURANCE — ALL KINDS Don Hill • *, Geo. L. Gettier 205 Tiedmont Bldg. *"'* Phone 2-4966 CHARLOTTE, N. C. TRADE FOR YOUR PANDA A PRIMER? 4 Thai's just what thousands of our very small try will be doing very soon. 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Any or all proposals emanating from directly affiliated local trade and Federal Labor Unions shall be referred to the Executive Council for consideration and dis position. The Executive Council shall in turn advise the Conven tion of the disposition made of such proposal or proposals, . Three copies of each resolution or proposal should be furnished. GRIEVANCES may be considered by the Con vention which has been decided bv a previous Convention, except upon the recommendation of the Executive Council, nor will any grievance be considered where the parties thereto have not them selves previously held conference and attempted to adjust the same. (Art. Ill, Sec. 12.) HOTELS Headquarters for the Executive Council will be at the Netherland Plaza Hotel. Delegates will present creden tials to the Committee on Cre dentials at the office of Secre tary-Treasurer Meany at the Netherland-Plaza Hotel. Due to the crowded conditions prevailing in hotels, delegates are requested to make their hotel reservations as soon as possible through Mr. J. S. Turner, Execu tive Vice President, Cincinnati Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc., Dixie Terminal Building Cincinnati 2, Ohio. In all cases please advise the exact date of arrival, and in the event reservations are to be can celled please advise Mr. Turner immediately. Following is a list of hotels which have reserved a number of rooms for A. F. of L. delegates: Netherland Plaza Hotel: Singles—$4.00- $ 10.00. Doubles—$6.60-$ 12.00. Twin Beds—$7.00-$12.00. Suites—$16.00-$50.00. Sinton Hotel: Singles—$3.00-$8.00. * «,. Doubles—$5.00-$8.00. Twin Beds $6.0fl-$10.00. Suites—$10.00-$45.00. Alms Hotel: Twin Beds—$6.00-$7.50. Metropofe Hotel: "* Singles - *2.50-$6.00. Doubles- $4.00-$10.(Hi. Tw in Beds $5.00-$10.00. Suites *10.00-$20.00. Gibson Hotel: Singles—$3.25-$12.00. Doubles- *5.50-$12.00. Twin Beds— $6.00-$12.00. Suites- $15.0O-$45.O0. Fountain Square Hotel: Singles *3.00-$4.00. Doubles $4.50-$5.60. Twin Beds—$5.50-$6.50. Broadway Hotel: Singles—$3.00. Twin Beds—$5.00-$6.00. Palace Hotel: Singles—$1.75-53.00. Doubles -$3.50-$4.00. Twin Beds—$4.50. Kates subject to change. If there be any further infor mation regarding the Convention, or arrangements for the conven ience of the Delegates, it will be communicated in a later circular or through the American Fed erationist. p raiernaiiy yours, " M. GREEN, President. GEORGE MEANY, Soc.-Treas. William L. Hutcheson. First Council Member. Matthew Woll, Second Council Member. Joseph N. Weber, Third Council Member. George M. Harrison, Fourth Council Member. . Daniel J. Tobin, Fifth Council Member. Harry C. .Bates, Sixth Council Member. W. D. Mahon, Seventh Council Member. W. C. Birthright, Eighth Council Member. W. C. Doherty, Ninth Council ’ ' . f GREEN REFUTES CLAIM BY STASSEN 0EFENDIN6 TIFT* HARTLEY ANTI-LABOR LAW . ' Detroit. — The arguments ad vanced by Harold K. Stassen in defense of the Taft-Hartley law ! were shot full of holes by AFL President WilliiUn Green in an ! address here before the Cth bi ennial convention of the AFL’s Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. In a vigorous attack on the GOP spokesman’s position, Mr. Green declared: “His facts were wrong, his fig ures were misleading, and his j conclusions were entirely off base.” Backing up this charge, Mr. j I Green proceeded to disprove the | statements made by the former f governor of Minnesota and em phasized additional points against j the Taft-Hartley law which, he said, “Mr. Stassen conveniently ignored.” The AFL chief de clared: “First, Mr. Stassen contended that under the Taft-Hartley Act labor has negotiated the best wage contracts in history. Of course, Mr. Stassen forgets that the Taft-Hartley Act has nothing ! whatever to do with the negotia tion of wage rates. He also for gets that present day wages are being paid in inflation dollars, worth less than half prewar dol lars in purchasing power. “It is well worth while empha-. sizing right here that the same j team of Republican and reaction- | ary southern Democrats who join ed together to enact the Taft- ] ! Hartley Act over the President’s { veto, collaborated again and again i to prevent Congress from taking , any effective action to halt in flation and bring down the cost of living. As a result, although wage rates appear to be high to day, the take-home pay of Amer ican workers buys less at the | grocery store than it did in 1944 before the Taft-Hartley Act was passed. “Secondly, Mr. Stassen main tained that wage contracts are being negotiated with fewer strikes and wage losses due to strikes in 1946. ' “Why do you suppose that Mr. , Stassen chose 1946 as the basis , of his comparison? Of course, ■ he might say that 1946 was the year before the Taft-Hartley Act | was passed. But if he wants to I be fair with the American people and does not want to mislead them, he should also make it clear that 1946 was the year of recon version, the year when our fev erish war-time production was suddenly stopped in its tracks by victory and therefore, the year of fundamental industrial upset. "Workers abruptly lost their wartime overtime -and sought compensating increases in W'age rates which were denied to them during the war by the stabiliza tion program. When industry re sisted, widespread Strikes took place. The same thing happened after World War I. But once these adjustments were made and completed, America should have been able to look forward to a long period of labor-management peace, such as occurred after World War I. Have we attained | that under the Taft-Hartley Act? One glance at the daily news papers is enough to dispel any such idea. “( ertainly there is no factual basis foe the claim that the Taft Hartley Act has brought about labor-management peace. On the contrary, there are innumerable cases of strikes during the past year which were caused for no other reason than the Taft-Hart Icy Act’s own provisions. For ‘ instance, the printer’s strikes in t hieago and ether cities resulted directly from the disruption of century-old union-security stand ards by the provision of the Taft Hartley Act. This is admitted by l»oth the publishers and the un ion. “Let’s get on to some of Mr. Stassen’s other points. In one breath he asks *why does he (the Member. David Dubinsky, Tenth Council Member. I harles J. MacGowan, Eleventh Council Member. Herman. Winter, Twelfth Council Member. D. W. Tracy, Thirteenth Council Member. Executive Council, American Fed eration of Labor. Secretaries will please read this call at first meeting of their or sanitation. labor and reform press please copy. President), complain about a law which provides for 80 days to set tle a dispute affecting the whole country without a strike?’ In'the next breath, he adds ‘why does he complain about a law which does not take away the authority to strike?’ “Clearly thn.v> two claims of the former governor of Minne sota are self-contradictory*. Any one familiar with labor-manage ment relations knows that if * law can prevent a strike for 80 days it does prevent, for all prac tical purposes, any effective strike. Nor is that all. Mr. Stassen again conveniently for gets to mention the Injunction provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act under which strikes can be prevented or baited by the merft issuances of a court order. “Time and again during the past year, workers s/narting against a sense of injustice have been forced to work against their will because of injunctions issued by the courts under the Taft Hartley Act. What choice did they have? 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