Six Millien Families'
Face Rent Boosts" v 1
More than six million families)
face rent increases ranging fromj
20 to 100 per cent unless their
local governments continue rent
controls, Rent Stabiliser Tighe
Woods warned.
The new Defense Production
Act provides for rent ceilings to
be abolished after September 80
except in “critical defense areas”'
and in communities which, by a
resolution of their governing
body or by popular referendum,
/ ask for an extension of controls.
William Green, AFL president,
has requested all Central Labor
Unions to sponsor petitions ask*
ing their city government to con
tinue rent ceilings where such ac
tion is found necessary to protect
workers.
Woods said 2,300 incorporated
communities — not including de
, fense housing areas—are under
rent control. Many'more urtin
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fait Accused Of v
Violating T-H Act
CHICAGO.—Ill a television in
terview, James C. Petrillo, presi
dent of the American Federation
of Musicians, accused Sen. Robert
A. Taft and his supporters of
participating in a “violation of
the Taft-Hartley Act.”
_ Mr. Petrillo, who waan delegate
to the Democratic National Con
* vention from Illinois, said that the
{ Republican National Committee
wanted to hire only 2f musicians
for the band which played at* the
* recent GOP convention here. g The
union sought jobs for 60 musi
: cians. .v , • . - -s /*.1’ fjfc.
Finally, the Republican Nation
al Committee, then under control
of Taft, agreed to a compromise
of SO musicians. Thus, Mr. Pe
trillo .said, they employed more
men than they said they needed,
Ian action which the$ Jfcft-Hartley
Act expressly prohibits.
He added that the Democrats
employed the samd site hand:4"
AFL Role In Democratic
jM
wm
Convention
Jt-r:.' '
CHICAGO. — Sensational news
paper stories, distorting and mis
representing the role of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor at Hie
Democratic National Convention,
have caused nationwide confusion.
Here are the facts:
The, American Federation of
Labor took no part whatsoever
in the selection of candidates. It
did not turn thumbs down on the
Presidential candidacy of Vice
President Alben W. Barkley. 2 It
limited its activities entirely to
the presentation of platform rec
ommendations to the convention's
Resolutions Committee.
roucy compliance
This was in complete compli
ance with the official policy of the
American Federation of Labor de
cided upon last February—name
ly, to postpone consideration of
the question of endorsing a Pres
idential candidate in the 1952 cam
paign until after the Republican
and Democratic conventions had
chosen their nominees.
There were about 60 AFL un
ion officials in attendance at the
Democratic convention as dele
gates or alternates from their
home states. Many of them were
committed by state primaries or
conventions to different Presiden
tial candidates. They did net at
any time act as a separate, co
hesive group, representing the
AFL.
One of these delegates was
George M. Harrison, president of
the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
and an AFL vice president. As a
delegate from Ohio, Harrison
favored the nomination of AvereU
Harriman. Together with some
other AFL! delegates, he joined
with the CIO Political Action
Committee in issuing a statement
to the press opposing the candi
dacy of Vice President Barkley.
The Veep met with this group the
next day at breakfast and when
he could not shake their opposi
tion, he issued a statement with
drawing from the race and con
■ ■
ri r— mi 1 rf-y f| n AUa .#At1 ..--.a „ m
expioaea tne zouowing
Liberals United ; / jj|;:
“But a few days ago we heard
of some very disturbing develop
ments. We learned that a reac
tionary group was using Barkley
as a ‘front’ man in the hope of
riding into control of the party
on his coattails. There was a
combine of the Dixiecrat forces
supporting Tien. Russell and Sen.
Kerr to throw their strength to
Barkley on the fourth ballot and
put With over. There were deals '
in the making on the seating of
Dixiecrat delegations from Texas
and Mississippi.
“The liberal forces had to* unite
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Labef Should ^no#:ff •. \
these Congressmen
\ A total of 176 Representatives
supported each of the. 8 amend
ments to the Defense Production
Aft which were opposed most
strongly by organized labor and V~
other consumer groups. ,
Fifty-three Democrats and 123
Republicans backed the Tails (R., |
Iowa) amendment to end price
controls; the Lucas (D., Tex.)
amendment to reorganize the
Wage Stabilization Board with a
majority of' public members and
|£ give it only advisory powers;
and the Smith (D., Va.) amend
ment to request the President to
force striking steelworkers back
into the mills through use pf the
Taft-Hartley Act.
Here pre the names of the
members of the House who voted
for all three provisions (Demo
crats in black type, Republicans
is light):
ALABAMA—Andrews, Boykin, .
Grant.
ARIZONA—Patten.
'/.ARKANSAS — Gathtaga, Nor
I.IL 1 .
m
CALIFORNIA — Allen, Ander
son, Bramblett, Hillings. Hunter,
Jackson, Johnson, McDonough,
Phillips, Poulson, Scudder, Wer
del.