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Coll* On Mombovt To .'Support Chest Drive Washington.—President William 3 Green called on APL member* and '■ their frienda “to extend their full • ext support to the Community Cheat drives" for 1M». Mr. Green made the appeal ir • the nation-wide community ches t shew staged by the Columbia Broadcasting System. Lionel Bar eymoro, Edward Arnold and othe Tatars of the entertainment worl participated in the program. “The health and welfare of al - people in this nation is a primary ■> concern of the American Federa tion of Labor and ita membership,’ ' Mr. Green said. The Red Feathe: agencies supported by Community Chests are a living expression o' the traditional American generos ity and our interest in the healtl i and welfare of our fellow citizens “I take particular pleasure in endorsing the Community Chest campaigns because through their policy of federated giving they succeed in diminishing the multi plicity of time-consuming appeals to the American public. Secondly in having representatives from la bor, management, and the profes • sions serve on the boards and com mittens of the Community Chests -and their participating Red Feather agendas, they are a living expres - sion of the traditional American generosity and our -nation cooper bating to serve all the people. “I sincerely hope this year’s ^campaign launched by the Com munity Chests and Councils of America will meet with a full measure of success. I respectfully • call upon labor and labor’s friends ••everywhere to extend their fulles support to the Community Ches' •.drives.” THANKS AFL FOR AID St. Paul. — Eiler Jensen, presi dent of the Danish Trades Union Congress, told the 60th conven tion that trade unions in the Scan eUnavian countries think and fes. 'the same way as tbs AFL. !!c - thanked the AFL fear its support • of Marshall Flan aid for .Denmark and other European countries. Randolph Prti—ti ArMh Awvi If btti " . 4 l President A. Philip Randolph of tho Brotherhood of Bleeping Cat I Porters presents award to AFL President William Green in honor of i his lone fight again discrimination because of race, creed, color or 1 national origin. Occasion was highlight of the AFL’s 68th convention at St Paul. President Lee W. Minton of Glass Bottle Blowers Associ ations watches AFL Extends Backing To British Labor (Centinoed From Pace 1> Mid. “IVm who bold that view in 1914 and 1949 Head to regret their error." Robert Rinton, fraternal dele gate from the Canadian Trades and "Therb isn’t so much difference between a man’s wants and a women’s wants," declared Mrs. Smith. “Oh, yea, there is," insisted Mr. Smith. "A man wants all he can get.” "Yes?” said Mrs. Smith, wait ing. "And a women,” contlhued Mr Smith, "wants everything she i can’t get.” Green Praises Hoffman for ICA lob &FL President Willi** Gram (Ml) tells Pan! G. Hoffman what s Job ho is doing as administrator of tho Economic Cooperstioi . Introducing Mr. Hoffman at tho St Paul convention Green said his agency is doing more than any other government arm to establish international DffidakGreet Each Other at Diaaet AFL Vice-President Matthew WoU (left) andJ. Scott Milne, secretary, treasurer of the International Brotherhood Electrical VI orkers, shake .hands at one of many dinners held during St. Paul convention by i - '* _ local unions. Labor Congress, said that his or ganisation is again urging on its government “the early institution of a complete cradle-to-the-grave social security scheme” and a na-, tional health service. “We want this to be established on a contributory basis so that everyone will feel that be has a share in it and that there will therefore he no stigma attached when retirement comes and the pensions become payable or when, at other times, other benefits be come effective,” he said. Rintonl said that critics of these proposals on account of their cost are answered by the fact that "the greatest cost our economy has to bear is the ill health of our peo ple” Rintonl, who is a member of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes and vice president of the Calgary, Alberta, Trades and Labor Council, report ed also that the Canadian con gress at its September convention ousted the Communist-controlled Canadian Seamen’s Union and adopted a constitutional provision forbidding any communist from holding office. ANTI-LABOR WEEKLY URGES BUSINESS TO USE STRIKES TO SELL PUBLIC AGAINST UNION (Continued From Page 1) dressed the obvious imbalance which existed between the bargain ing power of unions and manage ments.” In that same editorial it showed four ways that the T-H law could wipe out the trade union movement. "These are the provisions,” said Business Week, "which could do it: (1) picketing can be restrained by injunction; <t) employers can petition for • collective bargaining •lection; (S) striker* con be held1 ineligible to vote—while the strike replacement* (the ecabs—editor) cast the only ballots; (4) if the out come of this is a ‘no-union’ vote, the government must certify and enforce it. "Any time there is a surplus labor pool from which an employer can hire at least token strike re placements, these four provisions linked together, presumably can destroy a union.” And having carefully forgotten what it said so well 10 months ago, Business Week sounds the cam paign challenge for 1950’s Con gressional elections: •Industry-wide bargaining won’t be abolished by wishful thinking Action is needed. The first step is to condition public thinking.” There’s the propaganda blue print for American industry to follow: “It is up to the businessman to see that the ‘educational opportuni ties’ which the current crops of strikes provide, are fully realized Employers—not only in coal and steel, but in every line—have an important responsibility to their own companies and to their coun try in this regard. "If industry gets the facts across to its own employees and to its communities, these strikes may be a turning point. Every citisen should be made to feel his own great stake in management’s re ELECTRICAL WORKERS STUDY RESOLUTIONS J. Scott Milne (left), seeretary-treoonrer. iud Dm 1W. T*«*y, . _of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Worker* AFL ▼!«* president, study renohition* at St. Pnnl filial to go on appeasing labor bosses and in potting an end to industry-wide dictation by monopo listic labor loaders.” Can anyone doubt today what is tbs objective of American reaction when a responsible industry spokes man admits that tha T-H law can wipe out American labor and, nevertheless, argues it doesn’t go far enough? Obviously, the fight for a free American labor movement has just begun. Did you ever slop to think that there never has been-and probably never will be— another country just like America, or as strong as America? And have you ever noticed that— 3 even here—there is seldom agreement as to why America is strong? What is the answer? The answer seems to be that no one quality ever completely describes or defines America. We’re strong because we enjoy the most unique com bination of qualities that keep a nation strong and productive of any country on earth. But we have only just begun. We still have our faults which well have to correct. We still have HAVE THEY CAUGHT THE SECRET OF AMERICA'S GREATNESS? Yes, each one is right about the U.S. Way... but only partly right at best! sharp ups and downs in prices and jobs. Yet our system has brought more benefits to more people than any other system ever devised. We can overcome these faults, go on to greater heights—if we all pull together to produce more and more for every hour we work. Teamwork to produce better has usually brought us higher wages, shorter hours, better quality and more happiness for everyone. ^ The U. S. Way can mean a better way of life for all of us. Guard it—improve it. It’s your future. THE BETTE R WE PRODUCE THE BETTER WE UVE Approved for the PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE tf tk* Advertising Omrndl by EVANS CLARK Encvtin Director, Twentieth Century FnM BORIS SHISK1N Economist, Aintncru FsJmtim of Labor PAUL G. HOFFMAN Formerly President, Studebaier Cory. Published hi the Public Interest by: THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL OLDEST AFL LABOR PUBLICATION IN NORTH OR SOUTH CAROLINA FREE! oral IOC tXU0 valuable booklet today 1 Approved br wpsaae—rtvei of M-nmm, Labec and Hm Public In words and pictures, it tells you —H aw oar U. S. Economic System started —Whv Americans enjoy the world’s highest standard of living MAft VM COUPON to Pafatc Policy -. The Arhrririwf CooncS, lw, 25 W«c 41* Street, New York 19, N. Y
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