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BOR JOURNAL _md View ithout Fear and Without Favor R3PAY. APRIL 27. 1950 • grtacripllon Pric« $2.00 Yw Protest to President Truman . I Washington.—AFL spokesmen asked Chief Executive to reverse postmaster general’s ruling giving skilled work to lower-paid employes which AFL says ■ an “unfair labor practice that would not bo tolerated in private industry.” Emerging from the White * House (I. to r.) are Lee M. George, president National Federation of Pool OOce Clerks; W. M. Thomas, president Railway Mail Asso ciation; AFL Vice-President W. C. Doherty, president National Association of Letter Carriers, and AFL President William Green. Business May Get Point BY ARNOLD BBICHMAN. New York Correspondent for AFLV News (Service New York.—The equivalent of • slightly worried frown ie a lead story in the well-informed Business Week magasir.i which is headlin ed, “Unemployment, Prosperity: Strange Pair.” The article indicates that indus try’s intellects aren't quite sure they know how to solve the dilem ma of risking productive (meajtihg lots more goods ’n everythng pro duced) with increasing unemploy ment (meaning nobody with cash t obuy said goods ’n everything). What is of some moment is that Business Week,* which op some occasions can announce botfly that Chicago. — Vic Barnes, news caster for WCFL, Chicago Fsd oration of Labor elation, receired requests from New York, South Carolina and Tessa when he re reeenly offered a schedule of rotors1 registration dates for Chi cago and Cook County. The out of-town requests were turned oror to Labor League for Political Education in those states. the empJror has no clothes, con cedes that pump-priming is un der consideration by the Truman adminstration is a necessity “any time you can’t see evident—and rapid — expansion of business ahead” and lets the matter lay there without warning or stricture. Actually, Business Week has recognized what AFL unionists have warned about for months and months—“the creeping growth of unemployment in the midst of prosperity,” as the influential peri odical describes it, pointing out that “this new kind of boom, this first peacetime boom in 20 years, has some dangerous things built into it.” The dangers are: 2. Labor productivity is on the rise—“But it means that each year it takes fewer workers to turn out the same volume of goods and services.” “What this means,” says Busi ness Week, “is plain: Business has got to run mighty fast for the ecoonmy to stay where it is. The only safe level of business is a level that’s rising—rising as fast as population and productivity com bined.” The article cites on significant statistic: Output of goods and services in 1949 was about $259,000,000,000. Adjusting this output for price dif ferences, the total is about the same as it was in 1948—BUT; last year it took 3 percent fewer work ers to produce this same output. “Almost every manufacturer," says Business Week in this survey, “thinks that productivity will keep on improving in 1950 and 1951. If they are right, total production in 1950 can easily match 1949 or 1948 even while unemployment is rising. Again it will take fewer workers to turn out the volume of goods and services.” The same trend is evident in agri culture, where “the agricultural industry could even increase out put and continue to reduce its number of workers,” It is important to note that this analysis offers no suggestion, no programmatic lihe for coping with unemployment which is already 4, (Continued On Page 4) North Carolina AFL On The Air - . *■ i —e» i..«— ». -i ■ i i ft————fcs- -11. Asheville, N. C.—Jeha W. Pierce? (left), laterasti eel eeatalive ef the AFL Usited Textile Werfc Careliaa Ceaiaiiseieaer ef Laker Pe that m,m North Cara the kike la the federal __aa hear. The latervtew was krasdcast b? Statiea W LOS ea Its legater Sat “News ef Laker.* ea ttoair ftaee 41 . __ - *-- -- C. j. HAGGERTY San Francisco.—C. J. Haggerty, secretary of the California State j Federation ol Labor, was appoint ed to the board of regents of the> University of California by Gov- j ernor Warren. Haggerty succeeded Herbert: Fleishacker, San Francisco finan-j cier, whose term had expired. |No Stop This Co-OP Housing r Brooklyn. N. Y.—Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans in con* gres killed off—at the persuasion of the real estate lobby—coopera* tire housing for middle-income families. But they didn't atop this project sponsored by the AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Shown is the architect's draw* ing of the ftsrry Silver Apartments to accommodate 238 families who will pay $240 down and $14 per room per month. AFL unions and other middfe-income groups were ready to undertake hundreds of these low-cant decent housing projects if congress had merely guar* anteed loans by private lenders. Exorbitant interest, speculative profits willajhleck nationwide development of this kind of decent oinr. * :W • . ' ----- ■■ ■ - ----- Frank Edwards Replies To Saturday Evening Post BY FRANK EDWARDS. Mr. Edwprds demonstrating the value of the AFL spon sored newscast over 153 stations, ■devoted a portion of his March 6 commentary to a reply to anoth er Smear by the Saturday Eve ning Poet which refuses the AFL space to comment or reply to its assertions. This is an excerpt from Mr. Edwards script): Washington.—Let's take a look at the lead editorial in the cur-! rent issue of the once great Satur day Jtveniiig Post. headline pones • question ... "Must propaganda be the monopoly of our leftists.” The editorial starts off with a I magnificent piece of piffle. "Po litical pressure is pretty nearly a left wing monopoly these flays.” Big business and big banking ■spend. 8 times as much for lobby ing as all their so-called leftist opponents combined. Free speech is so nearly non-existent that it exists only in fragmentary form where it can be found at all. You can count tbe real independent newspapers of this coufttry of one hand. The editorial then proceeds to add injury to insult by charging the American Federation of Labor with violating the Taft-H3rtley law. Ill show you how their next bit of fakery works out. Para graph 2 says: “The AFL decided at its last convention to assess its 7,000,000 members |2 apiece for ‘political education’ work during the 1950 elections. It is committed to defeat 8 Republican Senators including Robert A. Taft and is 'putting its money and pull behihd 5 Democrats and 3 Republicans." The first part of that quotation 1 is another outright phony. The editors of the aSturday Evening Post cannot show their readers any proof that AFL assessed its mem-' | bers |2 as charged. They can’t■ ; back up taht statement because it, j is pure fiction as they serve it up j ; to their audience. Under the re-| jeently deflated Taft-Hartley Act, j the AFL would be guilty of law violation if It assessed its mem bers as the Post charges. Thenext paragraph of this wild eyed edtorial says that the “po litical education’* campaign has al ready begun with a 5-night-a week commeM^ary from Washing ton. I appreciate that free adver tising even from the Saturday Evening Post. I notice that they hedge their identification of the program with quote marks .... and for good reason. Perhaps they felt that it would be difficult to prove^st^thht^arUcubu^jrogram but they still wanted to brand it as such if they could get away with it. It is gratifying to think that our little program has caused the jaundiced old Post so much con cern. There are 3,000 broadcasting stations in the United States; we reach about 150 of them. The Post calls it a monopoly. Three 'thou sand broadcasting stations in the Umted Sttaes. Labor groups own fewer than 12, 10 of them in the smallest category. The Post calls that pressure. What kind, gentle men. Low pressure? If labor had no radio with which to reach its members ... it would certainly not be able to reach them or the American public, thru the Saturday Evening Post. This ful m.nating old fogey indicted itself when it ran an article on the Taft Hartley law in October 1947. The article was written by J. M. Swigert who just HAPPEN to be a law partner of Taft . . . and oddly enough . . he found the law to be a fine thing ... a finding which recent events have exposed as fal lacious ~ That article was so biased that William Green, president of the AFL, asked for permission to an swer it thru the columns of the Post He got a letter from Ben Hibbs, editor of the Post, who said: “We do not consider the Post as a forum type publication which must always devote equal space to both sides of any topic. We frank ly take sides on many important question* and we believe this to be our right;1' 'SfiT > ■ There, in the words of its own editor, the Rost admits that it is onesided and biased . . . and that it intends to stay that way. Now, in their current issue, they throw the label "leftist” at the API* In fact, gentlemen of thq Post, the AFL has been fighting com munism, day in and day out, in both words and deeds, longer and harder than anyone in the United States . . . including the Poet. They are far from left . . . and your editorial is farm from right! Beck Says Hawaii Unions Will Grow Honolulu, Hawaii.—Dave Beck, executive vice president of the AFL Teamsbers Union, said that the labor movement in Hawaii “has all of its future before it and the ground has hardly been scratched.” Mr. Beck made several speeches during,a visit here to advise Team sters locals and get acquainted with the economic setup of the islands. “I am certain,” he said in a statement, “that time will assist' in changing the minds of those who are set against us now into a full realization that only by the fullest cooperation of capital and labor can the economics of the islands prosper into complete suc cess and gainful occupations for the people of this garden spot.” Speaking to the Rotary Club, he boosted free enterprise, endorsed statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, and called upon capital and labor to fight the common enemy of communism. He said he was disap pointed at seeing Pearl Harbor and other military installations' cut in strength. Mr. peck was accompanied to the islands by his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cessert Seattle, Wash.; Sinar Mohn, Teamsters re gional director; Ray LeKaney, pub lic relations officer, and William E. Franklin, Teamsters dairy coun cil director. ;, ■ ■ ' • . . ± — Dates of J95Q Primary Elections _ _ _ rmBm % ' ■ • • __ _- 1‘ U. S. Labor Honors Oldenbroek - Washington—All branches of organised labor In tbo United Staten Joined with the American Federation of Labor and Con green of Industrial Organisations to honor J. H. Olden brook, secretary general of the new auti-Commonlst International ConfedaiaChM of Free Trade Unions, on his trst eMcial visit to this country. In tbo top photo, L to r„ are Allan 8. Haywood, vice president ef tbs CIO and preeeaal representative of CIO President Philip Mnrray; AFL Vice-President George M. Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Kailway Clerks, and Mr. Oid on brook, tbs guest of honor. Second photo, L to r_ Fred ML Coonley, grand lodge represents- , tive of the Internationa Association of Machinists, repreeenting : Machinists President A. J. Hayes; President H. W. Fraser of tbo. Railway Labor Eaecntive* Association who is also president of tbo independent Order of Reiloay Conductors, and Bert M. JeweR, tuber ; sdviaer to the Economic Cooperation Administration and vernier • president of the AFL Railway Employes Department. Third photo, L to r, Cecil Owen, assistant editor The United Mine Workers Journal; W. A. Boyle Of Montane sad John J. Mateo ef Pennsylvania, members of the United Mine Workers eaecntive board and representatives of Minora President John L. Lewie. Bottom photo, L to r„ A. E. Lyon, eaecntive secretary Railway Labor Rxocntlves Association: Assistant Secretary of Labor Philip M. Raiser, and CIO General Conasei Arthur J. Goldberg. __ ■ii . - -—it- - - - - ~ ... 1 ■ tt" President Truman Hails t , * -.'y V. V.. g A. F. of L. Union Show Washington,—President Truman endorsed the principle of the AFL Union Industries Show in a mearj sage to Matthew Woil, director H the unique labor-management ex*. hifcition to be held May 6-13 at ] Convention Hall in Philadelphia Mr. Truman said: “One of the finest demonstrations of the value of teamwork between management and labor in the United States is provided in the Union Industries Show sponsored by the Union Label Trades Depart ment of the American Federation of Labor. “The label is a hallmark bv which the consumer may know thin the article he is buying has been produced under decent working standards. It is an emblem to at* test the harmony between the work* er and industry. “Each year the list of industries copperating with this fine enter* prise on the part of the American Federation of Labor is impressive evidence of the essential spirit of progress that dominates the Amer ican economy. I am intereated to see that the list of participating industries this year repreaents so many fielda of American produc tion. “Please expreas to ail who are takffig part this year my good wishes for the success of the exhi (Caytin—d Oa Page I) Chicago.— \FL Secretary-Treasurer'George Meany is presented with gold honorary membership card ia Plumbers Local Union ISO at ceremony in connection with dinner of trade union division of the \ Chicago Israel Hixtsdrnt. L. to r. are President Reuben G. Soderstrora of Illinois State Federation of Labor; Mr. Meany; President Stephen * M. Bailey of Local ISO. Chicago; Secretary-Treasurer Walter J. Plot he, Local !M; President William Dodd of Plumbers Local 2. New York City. Mr. Meany is a member of Local 2 ul past presi dent of the New York State Federation of Labor. I - Gompers Memorial Held In Paris * N .
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