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Sen. Donnell Insults American Workers ~ * ■ WASHINGTON.—Sen. Forrest C. Donnell’s bill to pro hibit strikes on the nation’s railroads “is a gratuitous in sult to union members throughout the country.”. So said AFL President William Green testifying against the bill before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor. Mr. Green said passage of the| bill would be a wedge to impose compulsory arbitration on all in dustry. The AFL president made his second appearance in a little over three months against a “Iyneh labor” bill. In February he pre sented AFL opposition to Sen. A. William Robertson’s proposal to bring all unions under the anti trust laws. The only way to prevent these constant efforts to chain and wreck the free, democratic labor movement is to retire Senator Donnell and his ilk this Novem ber and the others like him as they come up fox re-election. Of the Donnell bill, Mr. Green said in part: "It would be difficult to find a single bill of the comparatively brief length' of S. 3436 which contains within it as many fun damentally objectionable features as does the Donnell bill. “Prohibitions and sanctions against which organised labor has most strenuously fought since its very* inception are all con tained within the bill, namely, compulsory arbitration, flat pro hibition under criminal sanctions of the right to Strike, and the use of injunctions. , “Although coated to the rail rood industry, the bill constitutes • first stop and a very long atop toward the imposition of a sys tem of compulsory arbitration on any Industry which may bo deemed vital to our economy and from thence to industry generally. “My unalterable opposition and that of the American Federation of Labor and all of its constitu ent national and international ite> ions to any form of compulsory arbitration in any industry, pub lic utility or otherwise, and to any attempt to solve the prob lems of management and labor through strike prohibition or the use of the injunction have been presented to this and other com mittees ef the Senate and House on numerous occasions. “Industrial peace will not be secured by the establishment of labor courts or by compulsory ‘ arbitration. Maintenance of en during industrial peace rests up * on the full acceptance of free collective bargaining. Compulsion can force the parties to submit to a procedure. It may tempo rarily force an unwilling accept ance of the results. But forced obedience generates resistance. It is, therefore a source of furth er conflict. Obedience, exacted by compulsion, can never be a substitute for agreement. , “There is no warrant whatso Ohio AFL Formally Endorses Ferguson • COlurabuj, Ohio.—Speaking for more than 450.000 American Fed eration of Labor nfembers in the state, the statewide advisory committee of the Ohio State Fed eration of Labor’s Educational and Political League formally gave its overwhelming and en thusiastic endorsement to State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson for U. S. senator. The league also gave 22 con gressional endorsements to a state of labor-chosen candidates. • The committee, alter careful investigation and analysis of the yecord of all candidates, has com piled a list of these national can didates whose election will be a direct benefit to all citizens of: the state. The state body again endorsed Stephen M. Young for congrem nsaa at-large. An all-out cam paign to elect Young and the ether liberal congressmemn from Okie to kelp break the strangle hold -maintained by the Taft Byrd coalition waa promised by % no substitute for (Catmaed on Page S) by theft* who propose outlawing strikes and imposing arbitration la the name of emergency, that the working men and women of this nation have so little regard for 'their country and its insti tutions as ever to permit a.situ*i atiaa to arise where the exist enee of the nation, the mainte nance of its institutions, and the health and welfare of its citizens are ia actual fact imperiled. "Any legislative assumption that the working people of this country are so lacking in pa triotism and moral fibre is a sad commentary not on the workers but on the state of mind of those very legislators. "At no time in the .history of; this country have its working people evidenced such lack of mo rale; bii the contrary, there is probably no nation on earth whoee wage earners are as ap preciative of their country’s democratic institutions or as eager to maintain them as are ours. To assume that American workers would deliberately bring about the horrendous situations envisaged by some of the spon sor* of this bill is not only com pietaiy without foundation in paat history but is a gratuitous insult to union members through out the country.** Visit Boys Club * 0 Favorable Ruling Made h Behalf Of Yet Teachers The moat significant ruling in volving Teacher-Veterans since the war has recently been made by H. V. Sterling, Assistant Ad ministrator for Vocational Re habilitation and Education, at the request of the American Federa tion of Teachers, revealed John M. Eklund, its President. Mr. Eklund said that the American Federation of Teach ers recently protested that the strict interpretatidh of continu ous enrollment after July 25, 1951, would work a severe hard ship upon veterans in the teach ing field. The recent ruling makes it possible for teacher-veterans to continue work toward gradu ate degrees until the termina tion date of the . gntire G. I. Training Program in July, 1955, as long as they stay in regular; teaching 'jobs throughout the school year. Quoting from Mr. Sterling’s letter to A. F. of T. President. Mr. Eklund. as follows: “The Administrator has determined that in this particular the posi tion of the veteran-teacher in respect of the reqiurement for continuous pursuit of a course of education or training undee the Act after the statutory de limiting dates may be said to he unique among other claaaaa ad- vte-e- *m+*m*1+9~** cordingly and only because of the historical aspects of the mat ter, that is. the long rscogniaad practice of the members of the teaching profession—it has been determined that an eligible vet eran who pursues a course under the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, pointing directly to a grad uate degree, in a college or uni versity during the summer ses sion 1950, who is regularly em ployed as a teacher during the school year 1950-1951, pursues graduate study under the Act during the summer session of 1951 (or is regularly enrolled in a summer term on or before July 25, 1961) and is regularly employed as a school teacher during the school year 1951-1952, may be permitted to continue graduate study during successive summer sessions following em ployment as a teacher during successive school years and that this shall be deemed to be con tinuous pursuit of his course of education or training within the meaning of the governing law and regulations. It i» to be understood that this determination is limited to the pursuit of graduate study only, that is, in a course leading to graduate degjee, and to situa tions involving consecutive sum |mer sessions following teaching i employment in consecutive, suc ceeding school years. Where a veteran-teacher ceases te be em ployed in or for any school year he will not have satisfied the re quirements of the regulations pertaining to the continuous pur suit of his course, until comple tion, so fhr as any succeeding summer session is concerned, and he will have no right to further education or training under the law." The A. F. of T. will continue to press the Veterans Adminis tration for a more favorable terprstation of teacher-vet who have no: completed undergraduate work. These eraaa, Mr. Eklund stated, leftL_ service and went directly in to touching especially ta»„.„ rural areas to meet a real emergency.!' They did act in many tnit earns have a full four years of col lage their G. L benefits should assure them the opportunity at tor’s Degree is achieved. Is Good Ice Cream! a Swede*.—Kal Fnaaww, viala player la the UotH 4 fSHfaj&fiJBjwphonv Orchestra aad member of Local 1433 of the AFL Brothorheed of Carpeatera aad Joiners, asks Liliaa Margarets PataMad where to get aoaie of that good Swedish lee cream. Lilian's brother. Be, aad Aaaika Ekefelt would like some too. The Detroit orchestra, cowpaeed of carpeatera, teal makers, machinists, salesmen, teachers, hoaaewivea, profeeaiaaal aoa aad aiaaafaetarora gave M concerts le Scandinavian eoantriee, the proceeds going to a faad to provide jaeaic scholarships in the. United Htataa for Scandinaviaa Pjylo. The coadactor was Bduarl Werner, vice-preaident of the Detroit American Federation of MaMciana. _ Post Office Slash Hurts Leber Press Washington.—The Eastern La bor Prase Conference demanded that Postmaster Jesse M. Don aldson and Congress rescind tbs 2ftj884Bm?£?wb tboute»dt of workes idle. Acting nnaaimousljr in 9th an nual convention, editors of API sad independent union papers east of the Mississippi charged ia a resolution that Mr. Donaldson’s orders: 1. To a drastic degree have effected delivery of the labor prose along with all other mail. 2. Personnel of* the Post Of fice Department is suffering layoffs and excesaivo duties. "•Tim curtailment,'* ^he con ference said, “places on the de voted employes of the Post Of fice Department an unjust burd en entirely unworthy of our fed eral government as an enlight ened employer. It is highly in jurious to the labor press, the public end the national oeoueasy as a whole.” Copies of the resolution were sent to House and Sonata com mittees which have recommended that Mr. Donaldson’s orders bo rescinded. Other resolutions approved by tbe more than 60 editors com mended the awards program of the International Labor Press of America; APL Executive Coun cil ftf denouncing the Trade Un ion Courier; the aims ef the newly-formed National Confer ence of Union Labor Veterans; AFL Free Tarde Union Commit tee and Committee on Huston Rights; and the AFL Nsws Serv ice. The editors urged that they be included in the Department ef Defense orientation programs. Capt P. F. Wakeman, deputy chief, Office of Industrial Rota tions of the UvJj,,jS**y, *P®ke on the Navy's responsibility for the maintenance of military se curity and industrial production. Participating in n luncheon pension improvement of the la bor pregs were top Washington labor reporters. Joseph A. Lof tus, Now York Times; Norman Walker, Associated Press; Rob ert E. Lee, United Press, and Joseph Gambatese, Business Week. Irvin Lippe of Trainman Nows was chairman. - V Officers re-elected were Prank B. Power, Commercial Telegraph ers Unia| Journal, president; Bath Taylor, columnist, secre tary-treasurer; Lewis M. Harr* (Continued an Page *) Electrical Workers Condemn Po" * In Pabfic Power * * v . era wants an end to the anti labor policies of the Rtfral Elec trification Administration of the United States government. “Labor does act choose to hare its welfare determined by the administrati vs orders of govern ment officials no matter how well inUotioned they asay pur part to be,“ the council said in a statement. “Under fascism aaxiam and' communism the people work for the state. Under the policies inaugurated by the Rural Elec trification Administration those employed on electrical properties work for the government under the[ guise of co-operativea. It ia a distinction without a differ *n»e Electrical Workers said that under the expanded pro gram of the Rural Electrification Administration, now far beyond the purposes far which it was established, the legitimate free enterprise system ia in peril. The Electrical Workers said: “The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers does not raise its voice on the subject of public power in behalf of private companies or their man* agoment. We have met the abeam of power by them com panies ia the past and have achieved substantial correction. "The International Brother hood of Electrical Worker* raise* its voice in the subject of pub lic power at this time, in the interest of organised labor in the eiectrjp light and power industry. "The subtle transformation of the government pSbgram from the proper purposes of providing power ss s by-product of the in itial program aad of furnishing a ‘yardstick* for private utilities has reached the stage where it threatens free enterprise in this industry. "We support free enterprise not only in our capacity as citi seas of the United States but else in our capacity as represen tatives of organised labor. "Labor cherishes its right to bargain collectively for wages, hours aad working conditions. It fighta the abregatiou of sueh rights whether in the fens of snti Isher laws or in the more ntepUrnttf fens of transferring #■ GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—AFL President William Green told the Michigan State Federation of Labor that “there must be a single united labor movement in this country” if origanized labor is to surmount its most serious problems. New Care Packages For $5.95 Offered New York. — Eleven European countries will benefit under agreements just concluded by CARE for the introduction of CARE's new Budget Food pack age. Designed to meet the request j for a smaller package than ' CARE's Standard Food package at $10, the new Budget Food package, with a net weight of 10 pounds, will sell for $5.95 for guaranteed delivery in Austria, the Benelux countries, England (including Wales, Northern Ire-j land and Scotland),« Finland, France, Germany (Berlin and the three western sones), Greece, Italy and Norway. The content* of the new pack age include: 1 lb. coffee, (1 lb. tea for Britain), 2 lbs, bacon, I lb. sugar, -1 lb. Bland lard. 24 oz. pork luncheon meat, 2 lbs. rice, 1 lb, fruit preserves and 8 oz. liver pate. Because of higher delivery costa the price of the new pack age will be slightly higher for the Russian sons of Germany, to which it may be sent at the price of $6.36. Orders for the new package as well as for any of CARE's va riety of 20-odd food and textile parcels may be forwarded through «xy local CARE outlet, or di YAHKEB SECRET! Washington—Marion H. Hodges. Plan Laker Advisers, told a group of vfsitlag.Austrian editors that, communists lie whoa they ac cuse America of profit-chasing in Europe by way ef the Mar shall Plan. Mr. Hedges later told a group of visiting Germans that ths United States actually is at tempting to share with Europe the “Yankee secret” of lowering prices and raising wsges whils still out-producing the world.. Are you listening to Prank Edwards’ radio broadcasts? speaking at the Michigan Fed eration’s annual banquet, Mr. Green said: “Many of the most serious problems we face today can be traced to the lack of unity in the ranks of labor. As Shm uel Gompers taught us, unity is labor’s greatest asset. A di vided labor movement cannot ex ert the economic and political power necessary to cbpe with the efforts of reactionary big busi ness interests to restrain the progress of the nation's workers. "I say to you here and now that there is no valid oi^ijusti- ~~ fiable reason to prolong disunity, in the organized labor movement of America. “In order to protect the inter* est* of the nation's worker! gf. factively, there should be and there must be a single, united labor movement in this country. I am happy to inform you tnat the American Federation of la bor is doing everything in ita power to promote peace and uni ty in our trad# union movement. "At ita recent meeting ia Phil adelphia, the executive council Urged the Congress of Industrial Organizations to name a com mittee to confer with a like com mittee rspraesating the Axseri ful that those whs new haMy challears aa ea the economic and politics fronts will be farced to retreat." CANADA PRICES AT PEAK Ottawa, Can.—The long-herald ed drop in the cost of living ia still to put in an appearance. The price index for April 1 re mains at the all-time high of 1«4. P«mln« Lobby Data - i >W f ♦ •,v ■ - ■ i ■- ■■'>■
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