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TARBORO, N. C.
KEMP SPECIALTY FURNITURE LIMITED
NOVELTIES AND POSTER BEDS
Center Street, South
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AAL Won 1,924
Polls In Year
Washington. — The American
Federation of Labor won 1.P24 Na
tional Labor Relations Board, col
lective bargaining election* in 1#W
These figures wei«s made public
, for the first time by Hariy O'Reil
ly* AFL director of organizing, as \
a conference of 200 AFL organizers1
opened here to plan an intensive ■
campaign for 1,000,000 new mem
bers during the Samuel Gpmpers
Centennial Organizing Dtive.
The AFL was victorious in 38
percent of the 5 071 elections con-:
ducted during the year. The total
victories were more than 'twice as
many as those of the CIO and un
affiliated unions.
AFL triumphs exceeded the com
bined total of CIO and unaffiliated
unions.
The AFL led Aie rield in every!
single tabulation made by the1
labor board in collective bargain
ing elections. AFL unions filed the
most petitions, took part in the
most elections, won most elections,
won more than rival CIO and in
dependents which competed in the
same plant and in union shops au
thorisations,
On this successful performance, I
the AFL planned to build for a
greater year in 1950 to honor the
founder and first president, Samuel
Gompers, on the 100th anniversary
of his birthday.
-- The 1,418 elections in which “no
union” won a majority of the votes
will be the special target of AFL
organizers. The Taft-Hartley law’s
many restrictions cost most of
these polls but plans will be devised
to cut down the number of elec
tions whet** *W union” wins.
AFL President William Green.
Secretary-Treasurer George Meany,
Mr. O’Reilly and Joseph Keenan,
director of Labor’s League for Po
litical Education, were scheduled to
address the organizers’ sesrions.
The conference wa$ called by
President Green for “the formula
tion of plans and policies having
for their purpose the organization
of 1,000,000 new members in 1950.”
ASKS ILO STATUS
Geneva.—The International Con
federation of Free Trade Unions,
recently formed anticommunist la
bor international, has applied for
admission *to a consultative status
before the International Labor Or
ganization. _ __
Officers of the United Nations
affiliate urged approval of this
request at the opening of a 4-day
meeting of the governing body.
It is certain to precipitate a
fight on the Polish members of the
governing body to exclude* labor
group from a status already held
by the World Federation of Trade
Unions, now wholly Communist
controlled, from which the new in
ternational split last year.
The governing body, which func
tions as the International Labor
Organization’s executive council,
consists of worker, employer and
government delegates from 16
countries.
See AFL World Roto
In Gompers Spirit
New York.—“The h ghly con
structive role recently played by
the American labor leadership in
strengthening the spirit of the
unionists in western Europe, in
their struggle to avoid being re
duced to mere Soviet tools,” would
“have been impossible without the
Gompers tradition.” Dr. Selig Perl
nun declares in the Reporter Mag
azine.
The article, entitled “What Gom
pers Bequeathed," deals generally
with Samuel Gompers’ democratic
beliefs and contributions to organ
ized labor, but streases his work, as
president of the AFL, in the field
of international relations.
“In no other respect la Gompers
more entitled to contemporary
recognition,” Dr. Perlman says.
“Gompers, the Immigrant from
London, consideied himself a living
link with European labor, and lie
showed equal concern for workers
in Latin America. . . . Even Gomp
ers’ detractors will not dispute his
role at Versailles, where President
Wilson’s high regard for him was
instrumental in the creation of the
Inteniationa' Confederation of Free
Trade Unions is an outgrowth of
Gompers’ work and ideas. In future
years, lie says, it may be regarded
as “the beginning of the recogni
tion of Gompers is the leading in
tellectual not only of American
labor but of free labor throughout
the world.”
Remember Gompers! Buy stamps!
Stalin Agent Sent
To UN by WFTU
BY ARNOLD BE1CHMAN
New York.—One of Stalin's rank
ing secret agents is in this country
today representing the Communist
World Federation of Trade Unions
before the United Nations,
j The name he goes by is William
j Gebert, although he has been vari
I ously known as Brownislaw Kon
; stantie or Boleslaw Gebert. He was
a charter member of the American
ICommunist party, an officer on
its Centtal Committee who specia
lised in trade union and Slav af
fairs in the United States.
According to a congressional in
vestigation of the American Slav
Congress, in which this Soviet
igent was a prime mover, Gebert
was decorated by the Communist
Polish government in Washington,
D. C., and was told publicly:
“You are our great support. You
pve us information of great im
portance.’*
The World Federation of Trade
Unions, which the AFL steadfastly
refused to Join because of its Com
munist domination, had sent Gebert
here to represent the organisation
before the UN’s Economic and So
cial CounciL The WFTU is a non
governmental organisation having
consultative status before the UN.
Gebert is secretary of the Central
Committee of Polish Trade Union
and is also a secretary of WFTU.
Back in 1933, Gebert was picked
up for deportation. Nothing hap
pened and on August 13, 1947, he
fled to Poland on the Batory, the
same vessel on which another So
viet agent, Gerhart Eisler, fled last
year.
In 1932, speaking at secret Com
munist party meetings in the U.
S., Gebert said what was needed
was the building of “an iron wall
of defense around the Soviet
Union,” of knowing "justly” where
U. S. war industries are located
ami told Communist functionaries
to penetrate the U. S. armed forces.
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SHIRTS AND PANTS
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Washington.—U. S. smokers us
ed 3 Vi billion more cigarettes in
lMt than in 1M8 but there was a
decrease of about one package of
cigarettes per capita. The Depart
ment of Agriculture suggested that
the demand for cigarettes may be
leveling off after a series of rec
ord-breaking years.
GRANT INSURANCE:
Chicago-—Stewart-Warner Corp
oration signed a contract with Local
1031 of the AFL, International
Brotherhood of Electrical Worker*
covering 2,600 employes. The agree
ment provides no wage increases.
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