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Better Coagress Is Possible If Workers Vote, Says Green Akron, Ohio.—Keynoting the American workers’ observ ance of Labor Day, AFL President William Green de clared that it lies within the power of the working men and women of this nation "to elect a new Congress with a new and more progressive outlook.” Warning against a repetition of what happened in 1946, ■when "only one-third of the qualified voters in America” elected the reactionary 80th Congress* the AFL leader adopted for his I-abor Day theme the slogan, "Use Your Vote!” ' ' Mr. Green spoke to a crow a ox over 30,000 people fathered in Summit Beach Park here to cele brate labor’s own national holi day. A portion of his address was carried over the nation-wide network of the National Broad casting Company to. additional millions of listeners. The AFL leader lashed out vig orously at the forces which have BOOffht to crucify work inf men and women on the crois of infla tion, and csstifated the 80th Con fess for its enactment of the vioious Taft-Hartley law and its •failure to act on such vital issues me high prices housing, minimum wages and social security im - provements. Mr. Green asserted that the nation is gripped by the “eco nomic curse of inflation” because of a “lack of restraint and fore sight on the part of leaders of big business who set prices, and t>ecause of the lack of statesman ship and responsibility on the part of the leaders of Congress.” He riddled the old argument advanced by business leaders that high prices have been caused by vising wages and declared that for every wage increase, “prices are boosted far out of proportion to the additional labor cost.” “It might be easy for us to feel vorry for the poor, unfortunate corporations," Mr. Green said, •“except for the fact that official records tell an entirely different ♦sory. Corporate profits,- after -taxes, are now 272 per cent above sthe 1939 level.” « Ailing upon me government. 10 sponsor joint conferences of la bor, business and agriculture rep resentatives to devise ways to protect the economic security of our country, Mr. Green charged that the primary responsibility of business is “to halt all price in creases and to start a gradual reduction in prices." Turning to a discussion of the Taft- Hartley law, Mr. Green said that a year’s experience under the measure “fully confirmed” la bor's fears that the law was in fact “a Slave Labor Bill.” The injunction previsions of the law, he said, have saddled upon labor the alternative of “work or jail,” which does not equate with the principles of American freedom, and consti tutes “involuntary servitude.” As a glaring example of the injustice of the injunction pro cedure, Mr. Green cited the pend ing case before an Indiana U. S. District Court in which the fed eral government, through the Na tional Labor Relations Board, is seeking “to forbid a union to pay strike benefits to thousands «uf men who quit their jobs in Chicago.” “That means,” he said, “an at tempt by our government to break a strike by starving out the wives and children of the strikers.” Proclaiming that American -workers will resist such tactics sand rush to the assistance of their brother workers, Mr. Green -declared that such piecemeal de •iensse against the Taft-Hartley law are, however, insufficient to free workers from the shackles of the obnoxious legislation. “There is only one certain and complete remedy for that oppres sive law and that is its outright repeal,” Mr. Green asserted. The AFL leader said that la bor's program for higher mini mum wages, improvements in the social security system, end the enactment of a national health insurance plan constitutes “social security net only for the Amer ican people, but for the free en terprise system as well.” He £M04s “From an immediate as well as •m long-range standpoint, the peace of the world depends upon the power of America to guaran tee peace. To prevent war, Amer ica must remain strong. I charge that the policies instituted by the 80th Congress and sapping the strength of America and the American people. Those policies must be reversed." 1 “VOICE OF AMERICA” AUDI* ENCE IN RUSSIA IS SET AT 24.MMM “Jamming” Effort* Boomerang Washington.—Russia's reported all-out effort to smother "Voice of America” radio broadcasts may be boomeranging. American listening posts have I picked up a total of 18 Soviet stations, mostly centered around Moscow and Vladivostock, which State Department officiate say ere used to “jam” the voice pro grams. These officials add, however, I that they have reason to believe the jamming never succeeds en | tirely and that the reaction of | Russian listeners therefore is one I of intensified interest; they want to find out what information it j is their government seeks to deny them. The United States is not try* ing to retaliate by jamming Soviet broadcasts to this country, the authorities say, but is mak ing a special effort in its broad cast to Russia to tell Russian people all the news their gov ernment may not be giving to them. There is evidence that this news is getting through, officials say, eiting the Kasenkina case as an example. When Mrs. Oksana Kansenki na jumped out of the window of the Soviet consulate in New York several weeks ago, the “Voice" picked up news reports of the incident and 'began broadcasting them to the Soviet Union within a matter of minutes. Observers in Moscow reported later that within three hours, SAMPLE Official Ballot for Stata Senator, County and Township Officers INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTER 1. To ***** straight party ticket, make e mem (X) mark hi Ike circle of the petty yea desire tc vote for. 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Assistant Secretary of State George Allen said in a domestic radio broadcast earlier this week that Ambassador Walter Bedell, Smith’s early estimate of 8,000, 000 “Voice" listeners in the Soviet Union has been revised upward three or four times. Other of ficials said this means ’ Smith now thinks the number of listeners exceeds 24,000,000. FOREMOST PASTEURIZED MILK Fans Fresh Milk—Foremost lee Cram Foremost Farms, Inc. PHONES 7116 — 7117 ' Send in Your Subscription Today. We Need Your Support. VOTE FOR HAMILTON C. JONES Democratic Nominee for Congress, 10th Congressional District I will appreciate friends. your support and the support of your family and HAMILTON C. JONES, Member of U. S. Congress. (Paid Political Advertisement) Magic of the Telephone Your telephono can do more tricks than a vaudeville magician. It can’t sit on its hind legs, but it can stop a corporation’s board meeting dead. It can't whistle Dixie, bat it can bring news faster than press or radio. 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