Meany Outlines
Labor No-Strike
Wage-Price Stand
NEW YORK. — Secretary-Treasurer George Meany
•brought this 87th annual convention of the State Federa
tion of Labor to its feet cheering his challenge to Ameri
can industry and business that they should take a “no
profiteering” pledge for the duration of the Korean crisis
as they would have labor take a “no strike” pledge “when
the time comes.”
“Of course, we will give a no
strike pledge when the time
comes," Mr. Meany said, “But
what about a no profiteering, no
excess profits pledge from the
Chamber of Commerce and the
National Association of Manu
facturers? How about a pledge
from the Tafts, the Martins, -the
Hallecks, the Byrds, the Wherrys
to lay aside for the duration their
all-out warfare against the little
people of the nation?”
Most significant aspect of
Meany’s address was his state
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mint of policy on mobilization
and economic controls which
were:
1. The AFL will not press
for a price roll hack because “it
doesn't work; it's futile."
2. If there is to be at any
time a wage-price freeze, then
wages should go up automati
cally by the same percentage of
increase over the wages of June
25, 1950, when the Korean war
began.
3. “The only way by which the
cost of all-out defease of our
country can be equitably shared
by all is to enact an excess prof
its tax in addition to the other
taxes.”
“I think everyone should keep
in mind," he said, ‘that this is a
struggle to maintain a free way-,
of life not only for those who
work for wages but also for the
businessmen, the industrialists,
the bankers, the coupon clippers
and for everybody else,”
He pointed out that if price
rises became general, there would
inevitably be a demand for wage
increases—“and if that happens,
the greedy, the selfish industrial
ists who have taken advantage
of a national emergency to add
to their already swollen profits
will cry out, through their na
tional organizations. for the
clamping of controls on labor.”
The Dun A Bradstreet whole
sale food price index has risen
9 per cent since the start of the
Korean war and is now 13.S per
cent over what it was a year
ago at this time .
“Why?” asked. Meanyv “Be
cause of wage increases? Be
cause of increased production
costs? Definitely, no The rea
sons for the price rises can all
be compressed into one word—
Greed. How far can this sort of
thing be allowed to continue?
We all know that as soon as
prices get beyond the reach of
the worker’s pay check there will
have to be wage increases.
"Of course, then the cry wil!
be that you cannot increase wages
without further increases in
prices and that, therefore, wage
increases are inflationary. That
is a favorite line of reasonnig
that we hear from Senator Taft
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men for the Taft-Byrd alliance”
He recalled to the convention
delegates of the “strike” by the
nation’s industrialists in 1940 and'
1941, who refused to convert
their plants to production for na
tional defense “until their terms
were met by the government.”
“After the fall of France in
1940,” he recalled, “our require
ments of planes, guns, munitions
and equipment were moat urgent
It then looked as if Britain would
go down at any moment.
“The situation was as critical
then as it is now. Labor wa»
solidly behind the government.
But not our greedy industrialists.
Oh, no, they wouldn’t budge;
they would not lift a finger—not
until the government met their
terms.
“They really put on a sit-down
strike against the safety and se
curity of America.
“Well, we cannot afford to
have a repetition of this sort of
thing this time. Nor can we af
ford to let the inflationary soira
get a head start on us by doing
nothing about the exorbitant
price increases we see every day.
day,
“If we have to.pav for a tre
mendous program of prepaied
ness and possibly a long ad-os:
war, we cannot afford to make
tax concessions, to those with the
greatest ability to pay."
TEXAS FEDERATION
ELECTS W. J. HARRIS
Austin, Tex.—The Golden Jub
ilee Convention 'of the Texas
State Federation of Labor held in
San Antonio was the largest in
50-years’ existence.
Interest and enthusiasm ran
high, and officials hoped that
some of it would be carried
home to local unions.. There
were many changes in the of
ficers of the federation.
Officials who will serve for the
coming year are:
William J. Harris. Dallas, pres
dent; Paul C. Sparks. Austin, ex
ecutive secretary.
Vice presidents, C. R. Saund
ers, Temple; H. S. Brown, San
Antonio; W. S. East, San Ange
lo; George F. Webber, El Paso
Bill Sams, Lubbock; M. M. Me
Knight. Fort Worth; A. R. John
son, Longview; E. B. Gross,
Beaumont; J. A. McMahon. Jr.,
Houston; L, A. Townsend, Gal
veston; Mrs. * Ethel Still, Fort
Worth, Freeman Everett, Hous
ton.
Fred Lucas, Houston, reading
clerk, and Frank D. Booth, El
Paso, sergeant-at-arms.
There are 13 different organi
sations represented in the official
fatn-lv cf the federation.
“Let me tete Kim home, Carl,” young Bob Akin, above, pleads
with “Carl Longworth, who caught the 7 V4 pound large mouth baas.
Young Akin in the four-year-old sou of Mr and Mrs. Pete Akin,
druggists, at Fontana Village, resort town in the Great Smoky Moun
tains. Carl Longworth. TV A electrician, caught the fish in the
thirty-mile-long lake formed by Fontana Dam.
Farm Labor Union Sets New
Tael In Union Organizing
LOUISIANA DAIRYMEN FOR CO-OPERATIVE
Amite. La—National Farm La
bor Union, American Federation
of tabor, is launching an unique
i*ive In the area of Amite, Louis
iana. where dairy farmers have
been ' organized into the Ameri
can Federation of tabor, accord
ing to an announcement made by
J. Lew Rhodes, Southern Direc
tor of Organization, American
Federation of Labor.
The unique angle of the or
ganization work is not in the se
curing for membership in the
American Federation of tabor
these milk producing farmers,
but the complicated and neces
sary means involved in the mar
keting of milk produced by these
members. Th« National Farm
Labor Union, Locals No. 23*5 and
237, have launched a campaign
to build co-operative milk cooling
plants in order that the mem
bers might have an opportunity
to market their products at a
fair market price.
Oiganizer I Lee Parker came
;nto the Louisiana delta country
to organize the dairy farmers in
to the Amrican Federation of
tabor and as fast as these milk
producers became members of
the American Federation of ta
bor through the National Farm
Labor Union they were immedi
ately confronted with the problem
of having no place to sell their
milk. Farmer’s milk cans were
left on the side of the highway,
They were refused accommoda
tions in the milk buyers plants.
They were refused an outlet for
their milk under any conditions.
Mr. I. Lee Parker, the organiser,
became a milk peddler over
night. For the past 12 months
Parker has hauled milk all up
and down the Mississippi Valley,
all the way to New Orleans.
The latest development Is one
of extreme importance to the Na
tional Farm Labor Union and the
American Federation of Labor
in that the milk producers of
that area, members of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor have
completed their milk cooling plant
to about 90^f and expect to have
a $60,000 investment in their co
ooerative pre-cooling plant. It
will be owned by the members
of the unions who subscribe stock
to the co-operative corporation.
Already the influence of the
milk producers* organization has
been felt. They have co-operated
By raising the issue that the
Charity Hospital in New Or-1
leans, a state-owned institution,
is buying its milk from without
the state. They have secured
legislation in the recent session
of the legislature requiring that
all ice cream in the state should
be made from “Grade A" milk.
They have made their voices
heard strongly in the organisa
tion work among the dairy farm
ers of the lower Mississippi delta
country.
ICFTU COUNTERS
(Continued From Pace 1)
perhaps that was one reason
why the attack was timed when
it was.
“Irrespective of the character j
of South Korean government,
there is no justification for |
armed aggression in defiance of
the United Nations.”
noted commentator
from
Washington
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PINE BLUFF, Ark.—Employes
of the Larkin Electrical company.
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, voted last
week for the International Bro
therhood of Electrical Workers
in an overwhelming: majority.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
State of North Carolina,
County of Mecklenburg.
Edith Louise Ivey, Plaintiff, va,
Marion Eugene Ivey, Defend
ant.
NOTICE
The Defendant, Marion Eugene
Ivey, will take notice that an ac
tion entitled as above has been
commenced in the Superior. Court
of Mecklonburg County, N. C.,
to obtain an absolute divorce
from the Defendant, Marion
Eugene Ivey, on the grounds of
two years continuous separation
prior to the institution of this
action, as by law made and pro
vided, and the said defendant,
Marion Eugene Ivey, 'will further
take notice that he is required
to appear at this office of the
Clerk of The Superior Court of
Mecklenburg County. N. C., in
the Courthouse at Charlotte, N.
C., on the 17th day of August,
A. D.. or within twenty days
thereafter, and answer or demur
to the Complaint in said action,
or the Plaintiff, Edith Louiae
Ivey, will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said Com
plaint.
This the 18th day of July, A.
D„ 1960.
W. M. MOORE.
Assistant Clerk of the Superior
Court, Mecklenburg County, N.
C.
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COCA-COLA GOBS
UNION AT JONESBORO
JONESBORO. Ark.—Employes
of the Coca-Cola Bottling Com
pany at Jonesboro, Arkar~±s,
have recently been organized,
where a 100 per cent union mem
bership has been secured on be
half of the International Brothei
hood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs,
Warehousemen and Helpers of
America. Organiser puy I’helps
is assisting in this campaign, to
j gather with the International
| Union representative.
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