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CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL VOL. XX; NO. 11 CHARLOTTE. N. C„ THURSDAY. JULY 20. 1950 Subscription Price, $2.00 Per Year INTERNATIONAL UNIONS CALL ON LOCALS TO STEP UP LABOR VOTE AND FUND DRIVES International Officers Pledge Aid To LLPE WASHINGTON. — Top international union officials pledged immediate assistance of their organizations to get ting AFL members registered to vow and contributing vol untary donations to Labor’s League f r Political Education AFL Vice President Dan W. Tracy, president International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, told the 2-day political meeting that the situation can be met if everyone will undertake to do his job. “If the top leaders don’t real ize the.®seriousness of this situa tion, your movement will be set back 25 years,” he said. “We’re going to double our efforts to get the money in as rapidly as possible and get our people registered. All of our representatives and organizers are going Hnto our local unions in the next four months and get that job done. That is going to be the policy of the IBEW.” “What we need is action and we need it badly.” President Woodruff Rnadolph of the Internatnonal Typographi cal Union said that he will send to every local union the figures; on their contributions to LLPE, He said he expects an immediate competition by all locals to im prove their record. He and Pat Gorman, secretary treasurer Amalgamated Meat Cutters aad Bate... Wo were among top officials to say they are “ashamed” of the per formance record so far of their local unions. Mr. Gorman said his union will step up its efforts among the 500 locals and 200,000 members. President John P. Burke of the Pulp. Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers said his union had paid $5,000 of the 10-cents per member assessment to the poli cal education fund and had an other $7,000 ready to put on the line representing payment in full for the 120,000 members of the union. Mr. Burke said his officials would make every effort to raise voluntary contributions of the membership. He believed more than 70 per cent would come through. Ends Career Mary T. NorteOtmy City. N. J, ■iahi of ths U. S. < MitmI (riaad of laboring people, wifi iktiro with the of tho SI cratie woau awhar of tho How*. Nominated to sacood her is Alfred D. Siemiaski, Jersey City. Win Vote Little Rock, Ark.—The people of Arkansas will get a chance to vote in November on a constitu tional amendment to repeal the state's “Freedom to Work” amendment, which outlaws even the union shop. With only 19,945 siirnatures required, initiative petitions with 25.929 names have been filed with secretary of state. The repeal move was launched by the Little Rock local of the AFL Interna tional Typographical Union. AMA’s Slush Fund * • Kills Health Post Yvasningron. — iw , Medical Association got another > dividend from its |25 compul sory assessment on the nation’s physicians. | The House voted down Presi dent Truman’s proposal for a' new Department of Health. Edu cation and Security by 249 to 71. AMA lobbyists, working with | the biggest slush fund in Wash ington, succeeded in getting the House to reject Reorganisation Plan 27 which had the support of the American Federation of Labor and other liberal groups. Just before the House acted, the Senate Committee on Execu tive Expenditures rejected the plan, 8 to 3. Had it come up in the Sente at all, it would have been voted on right after FEPC, when Dixiecrata would have been in 100 per cent attendance. The plan could have been killed with 218 votes. The extent of the AMA’s success can be mea sured by what an AMA aide said after the voting. “Hell, man” the lobbyist said, “we’d have been happy with 218 or 219. We never expected anything like 249.” Reorganization Plan No. 27 would have created a Department of Health, Education and Securi ty, headed by a secretary of cab (Continued On Pag* 8) U. S. Labels Russia Real War Criminal Washington. — AFL’ers are. I urged NOT to sign Russia s phony peace petition now being circulated in this country. Secretary of State Dean Ache son called the petition “a propa ganda trick in the spurious peace offensive of the Soviet Union.” Lewis G. Hines, special AFL representative, said Mr. Acheson had labeled the peace petition exactly what it is—a trick. In a statement branding Soviet Rus sia the war criminal and aggres sor that she is, Mr. Acheson said: .. _... —-i I am sure that the American' people will not be fooled by the, so-called “World Peace Appeal” or “Stockholm Resolution” now being circulated in this country for signatures. It should be rec ognised %>r what it is—a propa ganda trick in the spurious “p^ace offensive” of the Soviet Union. The resolution was adopted last March at the Stockholm session of the “Partisans of Peace,” an international organization estab lished by the communists, and the campaign for signatures in the United States is being ac :!*, <«y prefaced by ths Commun ist Party, j ! 4 w An analysis of the petition shows that it tries to do two things: (1) promote the unen forceable Soviet proposals con cerning atomic energy, ignoring I the effective control plan ap proved by the overwhelming ma jority df the United Nations and opposed only hy the Soviet Union | and four of its satellites; and (2) center attention on the use of atomic weapons by branding as a war criminal the first na tion to use atomic weapons, ig noring the aggression in other forms presently being practiced by the communists. As for the second point, name ly, that the first nation to use atomic weapons will have com mitted a crime against humanity and should be branded as a war criminal, it is obvious that this is an utterly, cynical begging of the question. The real crime against humanity is aggression, and in particular, the deliberate resort to armed aggression in de (Continued On Page S) Represented Their Unions •f u» •r Car Labor’s Secretary-_ at tbe 2-day_. „ L. to r„ Aabley L. Tattoo,_ ; Pat tew, AulHBaM Moat Cot i Man Levis, (Jake* Hatters, Cap sad Uses Injunction Against Switchmen Washington. — Once again the United State* retorted to federal court injunction to break a strike of free American union About 1,500 striking AFL Switchmen Union member* went back to work on the Chicago, Rbck Inland * Pacific Railroad I July 9 in obedience to the in* junction. Three days earlier the switch men had ended their strike •Cains t four other western roads after President Truman implied he would act'to end the walkout which, he said, was (Oenthieed On Pace I) & Work for T-H Repeal Washington.—Joseph D. Kwun (left), director Labor’* Uipi* for Political Education, talks with President Woodruff Randolph of International Typographical Union in front of huge 1.8. map showing states where labor most elect liberal senators to assure repeal of the Taft-Hartley law used so riciousljr on the printers’ union. Charlotte Labor Men Attend LLPE Meet John Lovett, .business agent for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, Charlotte local, and Walter Hooker, president Char lotte Central Labor Union, and business agent for a local elec trical workers union, and 11, A. Stalls, editor" of The Charlotte Labor Journal, attended a meet ing in Washington this week of the Labor League for Political Education, called to convene atj Hotel Washington on Tuesday morning for a two-day session. Brothers Hooker and Stalls were delegates from Charlotte Central Labor Union. The first ' days’ session was devoted to officers of national and international unions at which time matters political were re-1 viewed and discussed along with; the league’s activities in past! elections. Wednesday morning; was turned ever to State Feder- j ations of Labor officers and Cen- j t ral Labor Union officers who were given look-in on the league’s structure, its activities and also ways and means in which the American Federation of Labor j membership may in the future! render the necessary co-operation j to better perfect the league’s functioning. At both the Tuesday and Wednesday sessions past elec tions were reviewed and analyzed through speeches, records and charts. Wednesday evening was de voted to the representatives of j the Labor Press throughout the. country and a large gathering of American Labor scribes proved to be very enthusiastic. The La bor editors and LLPE officials got down to real business as soon i as the meeting was Called to order and matters were aired out at this session which will no doubt result in a more vigilant labor press as the election campaigns get under way this fall. The meeting for the newspaper peo ple adjourned at 10 o’clock to meet again at American Federa ttion of Labor LLPE headquar ters at 9:30 Thursday morning to complete plans laid the night before for a greater co-ordina tion of publicity campaigns de signed to familiarise all the AFL ■aim membership with political aad ether lessee ee they arise. \\ ASHTN’GTON.—Officers of international and national unions threw their full weight behind the twin drives of 'hAbor’s League for Political Education for political cam paign funds and to register voters. The action climaxed a gravel-day meeting of officers of the international unions, state federations and central labor unions with AFL Presi dent William Green and Joseph D. Keenan, LLPE director. Labor Press Calls For Prize Entries Newark, N. J. — The Interna tional Labor Press of America has called on member editors to submit entries of their news papers by August 15 for the an nual journalistic award contest. Entries have been divided into three classes: International union publications (magazine format), monthly labor papers, and week ly labor papers. They will be judged for editorial excellence in typography and presswork. Open to all publications are a%vards for: Best single edito rial, best original carton, best pictorial display, best front page, best feature article, best special column, best community project. Chairman of this year’s award committee is Dr. Frederic E. Merwin. school of journalism, Rutgers University, New Bruns (Continued On Pa«e 9) I Pledged Action Now * - ■ - W ashington.—Two of Um fightin’eet speeches pledging immediate help by their international union* to the fend-raining and registration driven of Labor's League for Political Education were made bjr Presi dent John P. Burke of the Pulp. Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers (left) and AFL Vice-President Dan W. Tracy, president International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. ~ Green Alerts CLU’s On Local Rent Control WASHINGTON.—AFL President William Green alerted all Central Labor Unions on the necessity of getting local government action to continue federal rent controls in their communities after December 31, 1950. Mr. Green warned that "a most serious situation will confront many mem bers of AFL unions” if rent controls are allowed to expire. He sent the following letter to all CLUs: “The rent control law has re- j rently been extended by act of Congress. In all important re-; spects, the law provides for ex actly the same rent control pro gram as has been in effect up to now. “I am writing primarily to call your attention to one very im portant feature of the law. “The new law provides for out right extension of federal rent controls where they now exist for only six months. “Federal rent controls will die after December 31, 1950, in any community which has not by af firmative action, by a resolution of its governing body or by a public referendum, requested that rent controls be continued for an additional six months after the end of 1950. "I know that a most serious situation will confront many members of AFL unions if rent controls are permitted to expire at the end of this year. “If rent controls will be need ed in your community after that time. I want to impress upon you the urgency of securing prompt action in your community to obtain either n resolution of your city council or n public ref erendum declaring that federal rent controls should be continued in your area for an additional six months beyond tho end of 1950. "In some communities legal technicalities will make it im possible to secure a referendum. In that case, the only alternative is to secure an affirmative dec laration for continued rent con trols by the city council. “If you have any questions regarding this matter, I would suggest that you get in touch with me or with Mr. Harry C. Bates, chairman, AFL housing committee." in a poncy statement, the or? ficials said: vC ' “To fight communism abroad and to safeguard democratic ri*ius and conomic well-being at home, that is the job which faces the next Congress. "The reactionary opponents of labor have proven incompetent to set policy. Not only on domestic policy but. in fighting the com munists abroad, they have proven bad security risks.” The National Committee of LLPE composed of the presidents of the national and international unions, recommended that all na tional and international unions and all AFL affiliates shall immedi ately instruct their regional and district representatives to call on the local union deputy collectors (financial secretaries) and to call regional meetings of all local un-» ion officers to get the following action rolling: 1. Establish in each local un ion a Registration Committee w hose goal is to register every member and his or her family so that they will be qualified to vote in the November election!. 4 2. Establish in each local un ion. # Contobution Committee —— trues* goal shall be a voluntary contribution from evey member and from friends, these funds to be1 forwarded weekly to LLPE. 3. Conduct a continuing cam paign urging each member’s full and complete participation in LLPE and the over-all political effort. 4. The national and interna tional unions' and all AFL affili ates to obtain complete pei'iodic progress reports on registration and contributions, the first to be made by September 1. The policy statement said that LLPE had stemmed and reversed the tide of reaction in Congress. The 81st Congress passed the public housing act, raised thf minimum wage from 40 to 76 esnts an hour, and expanded so cial security—first liberal legis lation in a decade. "To hold these gains, to make greater improvements and to re peal the infamous Taft-Hartley Act. labor must increase the lib eral majority in Congress,” the statement said. “Labor has the votes required for victory. It is absolutely necessary for u§ to see that labor’s vote does not stay home in I960, but ap pears in full force at the -polls on November 7 next.” Visits Far East New Delhi, India.—A mission of the International Confedera tion of Free Trade Unions com pleted the most extensive tour of the Far East ever made by free trades unionists. The 6-man mission visited West Pakistan, New Delhi, Bombay. Then John Brophy of the CIO, Jay Krane of the ICFTU office in Brussels, and A. Dailey of the British Trade Union Congress visited Tokyo. Gordon Chapman of the AFL, R. Dekeyser of the Belgian Transport Workers, Deven Sen of the Indian National Trade Union Congress, and Richard Do*»rall, AFL representative in Bombay, conferred with trade unionists in East Pakistan, Bur ma and Thailand. Reunited the mission completed its tour with visits and confer ences in Indochina, Hong Kong, **niU, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaya, Ceylon, Bombay and
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