Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 15 October 1958 — Page 10

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WHAT IS REUTHER UP TO? WILL YOU LIT HIM GETAWAY WITH TT IN INDIANA?

WHAT IS HE UP TO IH INDIANA? Freedom-loving Indiana Democrats and Republicans face a double threat to their liberties this fall. One is an attempt by. Walter Reuther’s labor monopolists to win control of the next Congress. The other is the Reutherites’ high pressure campaign to capture the next State Legislature and then repeal Indiana s forward-looking Right to Work Law.. i The Indiana situation is of nation-wide importance, for this state is an object lesson both in what freedom from labor union monopoly means, and in what labor-bossed government is like. The perilous emergency arising from Reutner s bid to •control Congress, the near majority he already commands, and what can be done about it are described elsewnere on this page.Here, let us examine what Reutherism means in terms of jobs, taxes, and individual and community well-being in Indiana., First, contrast Indiana and her neighbor Michigan. Normally one of the country’s richest industrial states, Michigan has been under labor politician domination for ten years. Reuther’s oppressive socialist-labor policies have driven one' industrial plant after the other out of the state and are still doing so. But in debt-free, home-rule Indiana, industrial development and new jobs are growing by leaps and bounds-with the outstanding exception of one sick, labor-bossed city, / During the first seven months of 1958, after the state’s new Right to Work Law had been in effect for a year, 78 new industrial plants moved to Indiana. The majority of these newcomers came from Reuther-dominated Michigan.. And they are still coming. Nearly one-half—47 percent, to be exact—of industrial inquiries received by Indiana’s State Department of Commerce and Industry this year are from Micnigan companies. “Living in debt-ridden, bankrupt Michigan makes me especially interested,” one businessman wrote. “It Mr. Reuthers puppets continue to rule Michigan, there will be no industries left in the state.” ' During the two years of 1956 and 1957; contracts for new plant construction and expansion in Indiana amounted to $889,123,000. The state ranked first among 14 leading industrial states in this respect There are no breakdown figures to. show what this industrial growth means in new jobs, but the sum spent represents $2Ol tor every Indiana man, woman, and child. Plant construction in Reuther-dominated Michigan during the same period is a tragic contrast - tragic, that is, for Michigan-for it was only $27 per capita or roughly one-seventh' of what it was in Indiana. And taxes? Reuther-inspired legislation has pushed taxes to almost unbearable limits in Michigan. State taxes there are twice what they are for identical industries in Indiana. Small wonder that Michigan’s lost industry is Indiana’s gain. But it won’t be Indiana’s gain if Reutherism controls the legislature there as it has in Michigan. Reutherism is a-menace to both political parties, for the laoor bosses endorse and back financially any candidate, Democrat or Republican, who pledges to vote their way, and they are out to, “get” any legislator wno defies their orders. Make no mistake, Reuther and his agents are exerting every effort to capture Indiana as they have taken Michigan. The AFL-ClO’s Committee on Political Education gives negative ratings to 9 Indiana Congressmen and has nominated them for political oblivion. All candidates for state representative of orie party in Indiana’s largest county are pledged to vote for repeal of the Right to Work Law. • Already Reutherism has more than a toe-hold in Indiana — notably in Evansville. This industrially sick, labor-bossed city is a picture in miniature of what has taken place in Michigan, and could extend further in Indiana. A group of Evansville citizens, Democrats and Republicans, collected $30,000 for an impartial survey of their city’s swooning economy by a Cnicago firm of management consultants. They were.aroused by the fact that municipal taxes had risen 50 percent and that manufacturing plants were moving away. They wanted to know why, in a debt-free state, Evansville had reached its legal debt limit and couldn’t borrow further for much needed and neglected municipal improvements. This survey, known as the Fantus Report and recently issued, found the city’s government “a definite cancer” whicn kept out new industries and drove away many established ones. Four firms left Evansville primarily because of labor problems and eight more “cited labor problems as a contributing consideration in their decision to move.” The city government's policy, the report continued, is “hands off until ‘something’ happens, and if ‘something’ does happen on the picket line it is better to try to get the State Police to enforce law and order. It was fur-, ther pointed out by five manufacturers that it appears that since the mayor and city council feel that they were elected with union support, it would not be politically sound to have local police protecting property and non-strikers during a labormanagement dispute.” And as “additional proof that the. city council feels it had a primary responsibility to promote union interests in Evansville,” the report cited a council resolution to boycott in city installations the products of a manufacturer who Was strikebound by Reuther’s union. * , So, the answer to Evansville’s $30,000 question is: A laborbossed city government and loss of 10,000 jobs. But this question remains- for the people of Indiana, Democrats, Republicans, and labor-bossed union rank arid file: Will you let Reuther get away with it? . ' > WHO STANDS WHERE? Ask every federal and state legislative candidate in your election district these questions: ' ■ . ...i 1. Do you favor or oppose the Right-to-Work Law? 2. Do you favor or oppose putting labor monopoly under the same anti-trust laws as business monopoly? 3. Do you favor or oppose effective prohibition of labor union political activities? , - 4. Do yoq favor or oppose effective law Enforcement against violence in labor-management disputes.?.. - C<q» right, IKS, by- the COMMITTEE FOB. CO.VBTITIiTIW

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COMPULSORY UNIONISM: THE NEW SLAVERY By Donald R. Richberg From “Labor Union Monopoly, A Clear and Present Danger** for a generation all labor unions denounced “yellow dog contracts" under which employees were forced either to join a union approved by their employer or not to join any union. To free labor from such coercion these "yellow dog contracts" were made unlawful by national and state laws. But today union labor leaders are demanding that a new variety of "yellow dog contract* bo legalized. This is called a union shop agreement. Under, such an agreement the employer forces every old and new employee to be a member, pay dues, and submit to the discipline of one particular union, or else lose his job. The union may be a good or bad union. It may be loyal to the workers and to the government; or it may be a communist controlled union disloyal to both. The laws of (several) states make it illegal to compel a man to' join a union in order to earn a living, e • ..The unions claim these laws are an "anti-labor weapon." How can a law be anti-ldbor which provides only that an employee be absolutely free from employer coercion either to pin or not to join a union? How can a law sustaining the freedom of labor be honestly called an "antilabor" law? The unions are actually chiming that it is against the interests of the worker to be free from employer coercion! They are claiming that if the union approves of union coercion, then it is "anti-labor" to insist that the employee be kept free from any tyrannical use of the employer’s power, against which the union claims to be the ancient, time-honored enemy! \ The agreement for a union closed shop is how called a "union ' security" agreement. This very designation is a confession that it is not the worker who is made more secure by union closed shop agreements. In fact, he is made utterly dependent upon a tyrannical control of his livelihood, exercised jointly by the employer and the union. Only the union itself—that is, the union officaldom—is made more "secure" by such agreements. - r— r- , The above article consists of extracts from the book "Labor Union Monopoly." Its author, Mr. Richberg, is a lifetime friend of labor. He was co-author of the Railway Labor Act of 1926 and has been legal counsel to many labor unions. He had a prominent ' part in working out the Norris LaGuardia Act, which has been termed "labor's Magna Carta," and the National Industrial Recovery Act, of which he later became administrator. No one in the United States can speak with more authority on the American labor union movement than Mr. Richberg. (See the August, 1958, issue of the Monthly Letter of the First National City Bank of New York.) "In writing this book," Mr. Richberg says of himself, "he feels that he still speaks for the legitimate interests of his friends in" the labor movement—who, perhaps as'much as the general public, are endangered by the growth of labor monopoly." ’ If the facts of this book can be projected across the nation and info the thinking of the average Aaierican, the dominance of the union bosses, pushing America into Socialism can be stopped. What YOU can do to further its distribution is explained on this page. AAL GOVERAME.M, ■r. . ■

WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT Are the priceless gif ts of freedom and opportunity, won and. be\ queathed by our forefathers, being stolen by a would-be political, and. economic dictator, Walter P. Reuther? . . In the opinion of many, his shrewdness, his intellectual ability, his: adroitness, and the power he wields is far more dangerous to the. security. of the Republic and the liberty of the individual citizen than is Russia, or any possible federation of Communist nations. Not only is Reuther, through his agents, reaching out to capture the Indiana Legislature, but he is already, within reach of. controlling, the next Congress. This is the situation: "A total of 176 members in the House have benefitted from labor ' campaign contributions, free political campaign assistance such as radio and TV time, extensive publicity in the labor press, scores of voluntary, workers, etc. These 176 members are strategically located on various legislative committees where they can best carry out the demands of labor.“In addition to these 176 members—the hard core of labor strength —there are many more vacillating members where labor legislation is involved. In the Congress, we find that 216 members of the House and 45 Senators voted a majority of the time last year in accordance with' the recommendations of the Americans for Democratic Action, a front* for most of the left-wing pressure groups, including labor.”

These are the ominous words of the . ranking minority member of the House Committee on Education and . Labor, Rep. Ralph W. Gwinn, who has served many terms on this Committee. This means that Reuther and his agents, working in some 300 Congressional dis-, tricts, need only 44 more labor-backed Congressmen to capture an absolute majority in the lower House. The agency at work in these districts is the Reuther-dominated COPE (Committee on Public Education) of . the AFL-CIO, with more funds, some SIOO million out of organized .labor’s $612 milion annual income, to spend for political purposes than the Democratic and Republican parties combined can dig up. For some idea of what COPE expects of political aspirants, consider a pledge submitted to local candidates in one Minnesota city. This pledge was exposed by two news- " papers, the Minneapolis Star and the Minneapolis Tribune, and it reads: “I hereby agree that if I receive the endorsement of this committee, I ' pledge to actively support the program and platform formulated by the Labor movement on city, state, and national issues. That I will join a caucus of all other Labor-endorsed candidates whichis pledged to abide by unit rule on all matters of organization or on basic labor issues. That I will clear all campaign literature through this committee and will cause to have distributed only that which is approved. If it is found at any time that I have failed to meet the obligation outlined above, I agree that I forfeit this labor endorsement.” Should labor monopolists gain control of the next Congress, it would mean more confiscatory taxation, destruction of higher incomes and theincentive to save, more inflation, socialized medicine, higher gasoline taxes resulting from labor politicians’ demand for reduced depletion allowance for American oil exploration, and a deluge of such socialistic measures as were imposed on the United Kingdom by British labor. “Americans are more out-of-date and ill-informed concerning the labor movement in the United States than they are in any other.area of public interest.” So says Donald Richberg in his book “Labor Union Monopoly.” The American labor union . movement, he continues, is no longer merely a group of workers organized for the protection and advancement of their legitimate interests in a free economy but it “has become a political movement with the objective of establishing a socialist labor government in control of the economic and social life of the nation.” More is required from that mobili- „ zation than mere questioning candidates about their stand on Reutherism and guiding one’s choice accordingly. It is equally vital that an aroused, informed public opinion leaves members of the next State Legislature and the next Congress in no doubt that the ‘ sentiment of their districts is strongly

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against labor-bossed government. ’ . Only action NOW can defeat labor monopoly’s attempt to secure an abso-; lute majority in Congress. It calls for- - mobilization of all segments, of the American people, of freedom-, loving Democrats and Republicans alike, of business and professional people, of taxpayers, consumers and housewives—and, above all, of union rank and file membership, the first to lose its freedom to labor monopolists. ' The gigantic funds at the disposal of the labor bosses cannot be matched, nor need they be. Their impact Way be countered try tested, low-cbst methods in the most critical of the Congressional districts where Reuther forces are at work. With a background of 21 years of successful mobilization of public opinion, the Committee for . Constitutional Government offers the following program: 1. Powerful, persuasive statementsby men who know, in language people . understand, printed in bulk and mailed at low cost. ~ 2. Distribution of the Richberg book, “Labor Union Monopoly,* the ablest, most authoritative statement by a friend of labor of the “clear and present danger” confronting both union membership and the American public. 8. Purchase of “Action For You,” a guidebook published by the Committee for Constitutional Government for' precinct workers in the battle to save self-government for America; special price SI.OO. 4. Publication of the • Committee’s next full page advertisement in this series in every Indiana daily newspaper. AU who read this and believe in the i crusade to thwart labor monopolists i from capturing State and Federal 1 Governments are urged to. join with ethers in. their community to finance - the reprinting of these advertisements. Although copyrighted, the ads may be .printed anywhere with local support and without further permission. Mats for stereotyping wiU be provided on telegraphic request. This is an emergency, and time is vital. Send check for as large an amount as you can, payable to the Committee for Constitutional Govern- • ment, Inc., for multiple annual subscriptions at $lO each, a legitimate business expense, for SPOTLIGHT For The Nation, the Committee’s antisocialistic publication in which outstanding authorities discuss issues of national importance. For tax deductibility for individuals and corporations, make the check payable to the Constfc tution and Free Enterprise Foundation, Inc., publisher of a special edition* of the Richberg Book, "Labor Monopoly.” Mail to 202 East 44th Street, .New York 17, N; Y. Single copy price:$1.00; 10 copies, 90 cents each; 100 copies, 80. cents each. Act NOW. Enlist others. This might be your,last chance to work to save, our. Constitutional Renublie.