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Devoted to the IateresU of the A. r. of L. and the Workinff Man State-wide Labor Weekly, Presenting Labor News and Views Without Fear and Without Favor to the Growth of North VOL. XIX: NO. 39 CHARLOTTE, N. C- THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 1950 Sebecription Price $2.00 Year • ‘It’s Easier to Look at Stars ..., 1 1 ■ i."-;- * Waahington.—-**tt*g eaaier to M at «Ur» when >wr atomarh i« fill” Samuel Gwptn, f Minder a ad ttrat president of the AFL aaid in arguing far • strong trade union moremeni. TW eyes uf the founder and the heroic f area around Mm in the statuary honoring hio memory are laed ay ird on the atara. AFL Freaidenl William Graenl lays a wreath at the monument to his nredeceaoor on the lMth anniversary of Mr. ftemnera’ birth. Jan. 27. Itat. Tobin and Green Given First Stamps (mm M. •r ium k of tlM AfLti J. Tehia. tMrt from loft, aad AFL MM right. BitvMi the tw< far Mi W. DcCwuck. (loft) SmmI GmmtIi of Irtf Mu Williim Gnn, fa 8mm Majority Truman Program At Glanca Washington.—President Truman asked major legislation to achieve many goals favored by the ia his annual state of the unioa message. Following are highlight*: REPEAL THE TAFT-HARTLEY LAW-Replace it with a fair law. Establish a labor extension service. SOCIAL SECURITY—Expand the program to provide higher benefits and greater coverage. HEALTH—Establish a system of medical insurance which will enable all Americans to afford good medical care. EDUCATION—Provide federal assistance to states for educa tional purposes. HOUSING—‘Extend rent controls another year. Assist coopera tives and other nonprofit groups te build dwellings which middle income families can afford. RESOURCES—Approve St. Lawrence seaway and power project and the Columbia Valley Administration. MILITARY—Continue selective service in this country. Support Atlantic defense plans. , • ECONOMIC—Keep the European Recovery Program going with out “crippling” cuts in funds. Pass pending matures to put into effect the Point Four program of American technical and financial aid to underdeveloped nations. Approve United State# membership in international trade organisation. TAXES—“Make some changes in our tax system which will roducs present inequities, stimulate busines sactivity and yield a Moderate amount of additional revenue.” Specific suggestions will bo mado shortly. BUSINESS—“Close the bephafas” ia tfao antitrust laws so as to bar “monopolistic mergers.” Promised proposals to assist sssall |jssinss~ and encourage new enterprise. Excise Taxes Seen Threat Ta Jobs Miami. Fla.—Advocating im mediate repeal at the wartime e« cise taxes*, the AFL executive coun cil said: “Large sections of the member ship of the American Federation 1 of Labor have registered protects j with the executive council against! the continuation of the federal ex-[ cise taxes imposed during the war { on amusements, transportation, j communications, cosmetics, leather: goods, jewelry and many other products. “When enacted. Congress refer red to these excise taxes as temp orary war emergency measures. Failure to repeal them since, the end of the war constitutes a breach of faith with the American people. "Today the government stands to tax revenues through the con tinuation of these excise taxes be cause of their strangling effect on builMIS* "The executive council desires to go on record as emphatically as possible for immediate action by Congress to repeal the excise taxes so that this unnecessary threat to buslnass and employment can be Elected to AFL Council v . Miami, Fla—William L. MrFetridge. president of (bo Boilding W»i« Em ploy on’ lat«rnational Union, waa elected Thirteenth AFL Viee-Pre»ident at tho midwinter elocution council mooting. Ho Alio tho vacancy canoed by tho doatli of W. D. Mahon, former prenideat of the Street and Electric Railway Bmployeo. • « +.««<* ■ ■ I V -- IPMMIH . | Waahingten.—Her* ia ana of the Mir ittnctin drat 4ay eaeara of Uw Staid Gaaipers romotatrttWr at amp iaaue. The caver belongs to T. I. Baracki, Berwyn. Ill, a amaber af Diciaion 241 af the AFL Aatalcaaiatcd Association off Street and Electric Railway Employes. Mr. Baracki baa aaked AFL Presidont William Green to autograph tha envelope. Tbeae rovers. witbeat addreaa, aald far 3# canto each and ap aa the irat day. Mr. Beracki'a will be enhanced ia value by Mr, Green’a autograph. Time Now to Holt Inorooso in Joblqu to take pfwfwitfw oetion V» halt the increase in unemplayed work ers, the APL says. So far the plea has fUko on deaf ears in government and in dustry. - The accompanying: chart shows the dark black pool of unemploy ed, which had spread widest in the 30s, again expanding after the wartime “full employment.” The AFL Labor’s Monthly Survey fore casts that this pool will remain at its present width at th aright of the chart, representing an average of SI,100,000 unemployed for the whole year of I960. "During industrial dull seasons, unemployment would rise consider ably above 5,300,000, the figure EMPlOyMENT •sjt.mt <■» tato SINKS NAMBD. New York.—Lewis G. Hines, AFL ipedtl representative, was appointed by American Legion Commander George N. Craig to the permanent committee of a new organisation to combat communism in the United Sttnes. The AFL is •m of tbs organisations with n rdwhhisd mmslsnhip of MM Edwards On 8 Labor Washington.—Eight labor.owned radio stations art carrying tho oowa commentary of Frank Ed wards, sgsaaemil by the American Federation of Labor, Monday through Friday. The call letters of f Mu teal eta* tiene warn laeorrectly luted in the news sendee of Doe. 23. Their seen* Us** jas IB., M -W-F; WILH, L*well-L*w rence, Man*, # ». a, M-W-F; WREX, Duluth, Minn., » p. m.. M W-F; WEBS. Buffalo, N. Y- 10 p. m., M-T1*-F; W*FZ, Lock Hav en, Pa., 10 p. ^N£-W-F;^RFDN, Tniy» papor odttoro an afaia urgo4 to mthaUatof iMW mi time for Mr Edwank; brood m Miami, Fla.—The executive council or tne American rta eration of Labor mapped a legislative program to bo wap ported in the I960 session for Congress and laid plant for an effective political campaign to elect friends of the AVL program to House and Senate. ' V. * Thomas Stts Labor Political Program Oita Of Big Gains BY ARNOLD BBILHMAN New York ('•rmpondmt for AFL Now* Service. New York. —Norman Thomas, who say* he's a failure (that's what he told the writer a few days age in an interview) was Riven a tes timonial luncheon Feb. 4 which brought out the great names in labor, public life and social wel fare. They came because they thought Norman Thomas has been a suc cess. I|r. Thomas, the perennial Social ist who's run for about every, pub lie office an American can raft for from President on do«rn, has gotten a lot of people mad at him at| one time or another in a political career that goes back to the first world War. Some of those people who got mad at him have included trade unionists. Regardless of the reason, trade unionists agree that in the clinches one of the best friends the labor movement ever had is this 66-year-old ex-Presbyterian preach er. That’s why AFL President Wil liam Green wrote: tag him a dsasrvod tribute, in com mending him upon his devetieo to the prioclploo end policies vMfc ho expounded and to expense' my appreciation of the educational cervices which he has rendsrad the people at the nation during Us life time.” Other AFL international presi dents sponsored the testimonial luncheon—John P. Burks, David Dubinski, Hugo Ernst, Earl W. Jimerson, H. L. Mitchell, A. Philip Randolph, Daniel J. Tobin, Max Zaritsky and Arnold S. Zander. In an interview, Mr. Thomas took a long look around over the past 30 years and said that in his mind the three biggest and most encour aging accomplishments by the trade union movement are: 1. Development of a real political action program. 2. The tremendous progress be ing made in getting rid of racism. 3. Its strong international point of view, particularly the recently organized International Confeder ation of Free Trade Unions and the job of the AFL in Latin Amer ica. Mr. Thomas’ relationship with the labor movement goes back to a long time ago when he decided that socialism is Mthe way out.” He fought for the share-croppers in Arkansas, the silk workers in New Jersey, texitle workers in the south. In fact, wherever there was an unpopular cause or a “lost” cause. Thomas was to be found as he is today, picketing, lecturing, writing, orating and organising. He may be a socialist, but to him it is even more important to say that he is a democratic socialist be cause to him democracy comes be fore everything else. He Is a vet eran in the struggle against Com munist and Fascist totalitarianism. tim council: 1. Called for pu-sage of a mad erate-income housing la* to psm mit cooperative homo building la cauee 1940's record home-buiidlaf year failed to meet the needs. 2. Urged continuation of aa ef fective rent control program mM the housing shortage Is eliminated. 3. Planned greater rnspenMi— with farm and rural voters wW are showing increasing sympathy for labor's point of view on fed eral legislation for labor, farmer and small business. 4. Made tbs primary poHMsal Job one of getting voters registered. I960 political campaign esnfl that “Mm farm revolt will bslp and to get the vote out. “The second most * important problem Is to make sure that tho friends of labor that won in Mm 1948 victory ora redacted. In 1848 labor had so few friends that tho campaign was largely devoted to getting the las’ out. In 1880 labor baa to fl|bt a more defensive bat tle because la an off-year It seust hold ita friends and must shear that it can defend Ita frieada erhe have supported labor la the Rouse and the Senate. For example, at the 2S Democratic Senators op tar election la ISCO, tB are friends of labor and only 4 are ahttlabor. Of the 13 Republican Senators op far election la USO three (Aiken, Vtj Morse, Ore, and Tobey, N. K), ana friends of labor aad If are aaHlab or. Thus of the 3S Saab tors up. IS are friends *aad 14 of aatllabar. “The dangerous ByrdTaft-Disie crat-GOP Mac in the Boasts am be smashed In 1Mb f labor eaa defeat Cap short of lad.; Pennell. Mo.; Hickshlooper, loom; MIIHkaa, Col.; Thft, Ohio; Wiley. Wise, la
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