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Pinkerton ifentii, one of numerous group* of strikebreaker*. thug*
and labor apies available to employer* for union-boating work, are
shown bottling with striker* at Carnegie Steel’s Homestead, Pa, plant
in July 1892. Strike was broken when the company took 2 900 strike*
breakers into the plant under protection of the state militia.
Democratic Support Made
Possible Eisenhower Success
By SEN. ESTES KEFAUVER
CD, Tenn.)
Thin is the first L*bor Day
»inc* 1932 when the Republicans
have been in power both in the
Executive and in the Legislative
branches of the government of
the United tates.
I do not want to make this a
partisan message. I was one of
the first to say that we Demo
crats would co-operate with the
new administration to the best
of our ability—that we would not
seek to engage in politics for the
sake of politics; that we .would
support the administration when
we felt it right, but would reserve
the right to oppose, constructive
ly when we felt it was wrong.
1 think that we have followed
that policy. We certainly have
supported the President — far
more so than have members of
his own party. This is particular
ly true In the field of foreign
policy, where the records show
that the President would not have
been able to make a single one
of his major moves without a
majority—usually a big majority
—of Democrat support.
In the domestic field we have
not been seeing eye-to-eye with
the President, and certainly not
with his party.
It was largely because of dom
estic actions that I was led to
make a speech on the dosing day
of the last session of Congress
calling upon Congress to recess
rather than to adjourn. I thought
that the new administration need
ed ip in Washington, rather than
at home.
I made this speech because at
the 11th hour a new message
came from the artministration —
this one concerning an increase
in the debt limit. As I said In
the speech, I am not afraid of a
$290 billion debt limit, if I am
sure that it is based on a going
economy—on a growing national
income.
But I have my doubts, unless I
know what the administration’s
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estimates are concerning national
income, employment, tax revenue,
and the other indices which are
so important to a measurement
of the economic well being of this
country.
I don’t know what this admm
istration thinks about those things
—but I do kndW that there have
heen substantial cuts in housing,
in public power and public works,
all of which are recessive factors,
and that there is much that Con*
'press can do to breath life into
the economy if there are signs of
a declining economy.
Therefore, on this Labor Day,
I would remind you that you need
to be alert to the signs of thee
times during the coming year or
so—and taht you need, individual
v„ as well as collectively, to make
your voices heard.
TM STILL CONVINCED TAFT
HARTLEY SHOULD BE
REPEALED
By REP. JOHN J. ROONEY
(D„ n. \.y
I am proud to join with the
Nation’s workers in celebrating
Labor Day, 1953. As a Member
of the United States House of
Representatives I represent near
ly 400.000 residents of Brooklyn,
New York, in a district inhabited
almost wholly by working men
and women. It includes the busy
Brooklyn waterfront and its re
lated activities. No only do I
wish to participate In paying trib
ute to the part our laboring men
and women have played in the
progress and prosperity of our
nation but also to compliment the
officials of their great American
trade unions.
The record of the first session
of the Republican 83rd Congress
is a dismal one and must be par
ticularly disappointing to labor in
view of the emphatic assurance
given by President Eisenhower
during his campaign for election
that he would seek amendments
to the Taft-Hartley law which
would be beneficial to labor.
No such program was eever
sumbitted and we new hear that
a final draft on recommendations
for such amendments will not be
ready until some time in the fall.
As this program is undoubtedly
dhe of many vital issues to come
up when Congress convenes in
Jhouary 1954, I feel that this
Is an. appropriate opportunity to
caress my feelings in regard to
i*
un tne day that the Taft-Hart
ley bill becamp a law, over former
President Truman's veto aad my
vote, I committed my self to the
repeal of it. The measure was
conceived in a spirit of antagon
ism towards labor and much of
it was drafted by attorneys for
the labor-hating National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers. I am
still firmly convinced that out
right repeal is a prerequisite to
cementing better understanding ta
labor management relations. I
shall therefore continue my ef
forts to have this oboxious labor
law repealed.
LLP.L supports candidates
eo the basis of their record
net their partg label.
LABOR HAS PROGRESSED
SINCE FIRST HARD DATS
(Ceathned frees Pag* 1)
just right* have been recognized
in this country.
At the same time, changes in
national and world economic, so
cial and political conditions have
vastly enlarged the scope of oar
interests and responsibilities. leg
islation like the Taft-Hartley Act
in Washington and the union
busting so-called “right'to work”
bills in the states have obliged
working men and women to go
into politics.
Attempts by selfish interests to
destroy Social Security, under the
guise of extending its benefits;
scuttling the housing program,
originally set up to see that work
ing men and women could rent
or buy proper homes at prices
within their range; the giveaway
of our natural resources; suicidal
decreases in our national defense
program—all these and other Is
sues have forced us into politics.
If working men and women are
not to be helpless' victims of sel
fish interests they must take aa
active part in politics today, on
the local, the state, and the na
tional level. They have no al
ternative.
Naturally we have many af
firmative interests, too. We of
the American Federation of *-»
bor are proud that we pioneered
in the movement for free, public,
compulsory education for >h<»d»enT
but we rexfize today that we need
to see that equal educational ad
vantage are available to children
r.o matter in what state they live,
and that teachers are paid a
more just wage. We want .to
see that an end comes to discrimi
nation which denies some persons
equal opportunities.
w« want Social Security ex
tended to those who have been
so far denied it, and we want to
aee it realistically adjusted to the
increased cost of v living. We
want insurance so that no per
son need fear to call a doctor
when he or some member of the
family falls ill. We want to
carry out the housing programs
to which Congress once committed
itself. We want to protect our
natural resources from those-who
want to exploit them for their
own private gain. We want to
see taxes levied according to abil
ity pay. We want a strong
and efficient defense system.
Our interests today go far
Across the oceans, too. Today we
are united with workers in other
nations all over the globe, seeking
to preserve rights that workers
h*v* gained in some countries,
and to gain such rights for work
ers who have been denied them.
TA8K 18 STAGGERING
We have aided the workers of
Prance, Italy, and other nations in
their battle against Communism
and we have been a champion of
those in Tunisia. Morocco and
elsewhere who have been battling
colonialism. We have extended
our hand to those brave workers
behind the Iron Curtain who have
faced steel armor with their Imre
hands. We plsn to do whatever
is within our capacity to aid the
workers in the satellite countries
and in tfce backward a*d under
developed areas of the world.
The task before us today is
staggering. It Is. still one of or
ganizing the unorganised, of see
ing that working men and women
receive just wages and work reas
onable hours. But it ie one also
that requires you who are mem
bers of the American Federation
of Labor' to take a more active
part in your community life, to
be more informed and hosier about
political affairs .on every level.
Tour union should still be the
center of your economic life, but
In these days each of us must
step to father and farther hori
Trade unions are the fenda
mental bastion today of free de
mocracy.
All of us in the American Fed
?ration of Labor are called upon
to man important poets ,1a that
bastion. On this Labor Day, each
of us may well pause and ask
himself "Am I doing all I can
and should do as my part? Am
I assuming my fair share of the
increased responsibilities ei the
working man today?"
Every member must make his
or her full contribution to the
bask objectives of our organisa
tion. Only by so doing can we
maintain the American Federation
of Labor as a living instrumen
tality for human good.
--
Labor's League for Political
Education was formed by the
carry out the non partisan politi
cal program of the AFL.
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to Church this week
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PRINTERS HOLD ANNUAL
CONVENTION IN DETROIT
(Continued from Page 1)
was a $1 million limit on such
transfers.
President Woodruff Randolph
reminded delegatee that present
officers had been elected four
times on a platform of maintain
ing adequate defense for union
members; that each convention for
six years had overwhelmingly ap
proved defense policies of the I.
T. U.; and that a proposal to
destroy Unitypo and stop publica
tion of newspapers was defeated
304 to 1 two years ago.
Urges Labor’s Daily Support
The minority report was shout
ed down in the roar of the lop
sided voice vote, and the defense
committee’s recommendation for
continuing and strengthening
Unltypo was 'adopted with with
scattering opposition.
' The committee report urged
further support of Labor’s Daily,
sponsored by 1. T. U. to present
pertinent news truthfully and give
the labor viewpoint on current
events.
It commended the hundreds of
fair employers who maintained
friendly relations with local un
ions and pledged utmost co-opera
tion with them in adapting new
machines and new processes to
prints hops and mailrooms.
The report encouraged greeter
activity in political fields, and in
supporting proposed labor legisla
tion. It recommened more or
ganising activity, greater promo
tion of the union label and an ex
panded public relations program.
Constitutional amendments adopt
ed by the convention will be sub
mitted to referendum of the I. T.
U.Y 100,000 Members, and if
adopted will become effective Jan
uary 1. A special election on a
one per cent defense assessment is
set for September 16
Winning unanimous approval
was a resolution praising the pro
posed AFL-CIO no-raiding agree
ment ITU delegates to the forth
coming AFL convention were in
structed to “further to the limit
of their powers all efforts" toward
bringing about a merger of the
AFL and CIO into a single organ
isation.
Defeated by a 243-113 margin
was a proposal to eliminate the
minimum term required of ap
prentices before they become
jpuraeymerf: Present requirements
are apprenticeships of 5 to 6
years.
Minneapolis, Minn., was selected
as the sight of next year> con
vention.
There was no election of of- '
fleers at the «Uh convention since
traditionally the ITU elects Us
officers in * referendum held in
May. It is a foregone conclusion
that President Randolph will stand
for relectioo.
REFLECT THIS LABOR DAT
CN HUMAN SIDE AJF.L.
(Continued (rta Pace 1)
Security. We went adequate de
fence, fair taxation. We want
all theee thine*, not only for our
•elves, but for all the people of
the country, because we believe
they will make this a better, safer,
a. ore secure, wore prosperous,
and a more Just nation.
Yea aad I know that the way
to get these things is to be more
active in our community, our
state and our nation. We know
we need to be citiaens in fact as
well as name, concerned about
the school board, the city council,
the state officers, the members
Of Congress. We need to knew ie
' All this begins with sack one
you, with our neighbor*—for wo
h
CARPENTERS WITHDRAW
FROM THE A. F. OF L.
(Continued from Pace 1)
emeritus of the Carpenters Union,
since the council meeting: of the
AFL in Chicago and that they
had discussed among other things
representation of the union on the
Executive Council of the,Ameri
can Federation of Labor, are com
pletely untrue.
President Meany did confer on
August 24 with the president of
the Carpenters Union, Maurice A.
Hutcheson, in Washington regard
ing the problems which had to do
with the Carpenters withdrawal
on August 12. As a result of the
discussion between Meany and
Hutcheson, a meeting will be held
within the next two weeks be
tween a committee of the AFL |
Executive Council and a commit
tee representing the Carpenters.
The only subjects discussed by
Meany and Hutcheson in their
meeting August 24 were the prob
lems referred to above. No dis
cussion at all was had regarding
representation on the Executive
Council of the American Feder
ation of Labor.
FINK RE-ELECTED TO HEAD
N.C. LABOR FEDERATION
(Continued from Page 1)
vias, Jones. Plyler, Komcgsy and
Jordan.
BUILDING TRADES ELECT
P. M. Taylor and Henry C.
Sawyer, both of Durham, were re
elected as officers by the North
Carolina Building, and Construc
tion Trades Council in a meeting
of the body last Sunday, prior to
the convening of the convention
of the North Carolina Federation
of Ljybor in Wilmington.
Taylor, business agent of Dur
ham Plumbers and Steamfitters
Local 686, was elected to his
third consecutive term as Council
President, while Sawytr, business
agent of Local 663 of the Elec
trical Workers, was returned to
the' office of Secretary-treasurer.
Other officers elected by the
Council last Sunday include A. B.
Dixon of the Charlotte local of
the Operating Engineers, vice
president, and R. D. Apple, Sr.,
of the Greensboro painters union,
trustee for three years.
The next meeting of the North
Carolina Building Trades Council
will be held in Winston-Salem on
October 11th.
SHARPE HEADS PAINTER8
. Merle Sharpe, business agent
of Durham Painters Local 678,
was elected vice-president of the
North Carolina Council of Paint
m, Paper hangers and Decorators
n Wilmington last Saturday.
The Pointers Council held its
inaual meeting in the coast city,
jrior to the annual .convention of
he North Carolina Federation of
Labor. t
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