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? MONDAY, SEPT. 2, 1946

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| GREEN: : "Boost Production by Every Means Possible | MURRAY: % boi Mu st Load Country on Path of Progress'|

Labor Day

By WILLIAM GREEN"

President, American Federation of Labor ‘History will record 1946 as the year of transition. It 8'up tous to make 1947 the year of fulfilment.

- On this Labor Day let us forget for the moment the [toward the attainment of our nation’s post-ward goals. The detours ang difficulties we-have encountered on the rocky | American people, in recognition of this fact, must prepare ‘road to-peace and prosperity and chart the progress we. have {to secure that lasting peace and_international co-operation envisaged. by our war President, Fanklin D. Roosevelt, and

achieved, Within a. year after the fightin’ ended, America has almost completed the heavy

and dispiriting task of reconversion. The way forward should be easier and more rapid from. now} on. The big reward ahead is full production. and full employment, the two essentials to a sound and prosperous econ omy. : : The troubles of the rest of the world are still too much with us, but we cannot escape

our responsibility for contributing .to their ‘solution. . This year the American people gave generously in time of scarcity | to save the people of Europe and] Asia from starvation. Hundreds of thousands of ' American boys are, still stationed abroad to- keep the peace so dearly won. It is part of | ur job to help the weaker nations to get back on their feet, and we, ‘will not count the price too high if by these efforts we serve. the | cause of lasting world peace... Above all,-we recognize the truth | that war is the greatest enemy of mankind and that without endur- | ing peace the strivings of labor. to| raise the standard of life and work | of the nation's wage earners can be of no avail

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boost production by every means possible. ~\ Fortunately, ine mass unemploy- |

after V-J day failed to materialize. | Despite the return of millions of | members of the armed forces to| civilian life, jobs are plentiful. As production hits high gear, the gateways to. more and better employment opportunities will - increase,

‘| Unless the tide of inflation breaks | bounds and’ engulfs our ‘economy, |

the danger of a postwar depression | will be avoided. On the legislative front, labor has attained little progress during the

year, We had hoped for -broaden- f

ing “of our social security system and for. the inauguration of national health insurance, but .congress failed us. We strove for the enactment of a long-range housing program which would permit the construction of millions of badly {needed new homes during the next | ten years, but congress fell down on the job. On the other hand, labor. was forced to defend itself against a series of hostile moves by con- | gress which would have undermined | the freedom of American. workers {and handcuffed the trade union

| movement. Fortunately, the worst

‘of these measures were defeated or vetoed. In the year ahead. ’organized labor muse concentrate greater effort to | win public opinion to its side. The

trade union movement enjoys the the profiteers by almost completely | ogrorte to secure a voice for labor

confidence of the nation's workers

to a degree 1ever- before attained. resulting inflation has cut equally | | tions, and to promote ever closer During, the wearlyy part of this [his is evidenced by increas sing into the real wages of the American | friendship, understanding and *co-

Messages

By PHILIP

President; ‘Congress of Industrial Organizations “ref

On this second Labor Day tilities, American labor recogni

buttress their efforts to se|cure, through progressive so-! lial legislation, an expanding |

goals which the people have been consistently endeavoring to achieve. Labor, through the World Federation of Trade] Unions, must exercise its influence | against aggressive imperialism, in foreign affairs wherevex it is found to be practiced by any ‘ country. Labor has noted the derelictions of ! congress in fail-} ing to measure up! to its responsibilities, and the-favors which iit has extended profiteers at the expense of the common people. The take-home pay- of American workers was drastically cut following the cdnclusion. of hostilities. The C. I. O. took-the lead in the fight to obtain American living standards and the mass purchasing power necessary for a stabilized and expanding economy. But: since that time profiteers have destroyed the balance sought by the C. 1. O. between w ages and-prices by securing! unjustified price increases to swell] already spectacular earnings.

Congress loaned its support to

Mr. Murray :

wrecking the price control act. The!

year, Une’ members of the American memberships and the results of col- Workers and into the savings andj

Federation of Labor won substantial |

{lective bargaining elections. The

purchasing power of all sections of |

increases in wage rates to compen- | membership of the American Fed- our people. It threatens still worse sate them -for the loss of overtime | eration of Labor now stands at an disaster to our national welfare.

‘pay which they enjoyed during the

war production drive. However, the! soaring cost of living has, to a large extent, cancelled these gains unless

complished by greatly expanded | production to end existing short-| ages. It is, therefore, to the inlerest of 2 of all A American wor workers to

LABOR DAY HAS old Friends Caution Labor To Take Stock of Faults as

64-YEAR STORY

Non- dustrial State - Was

First to Celebrate It. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. — This tion of the C. I. O., while pretty weil] Operators Must Change.

Labor day, the 65th observance of

By RAY MITTEN Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—Labor day, which gives vou such a welcome long week-end, originated with a workers’ organization that today is only a memory to the| country’s top union leaders here. 1t also was first declared a legal holiday by a state that was and] is not primarily an industrial state. The ‘organization - was the . old | Knights of Labor, which still has |

a few active alumni in union circles. | public resentment leading . toward | possessed without the debilitation

all-time high of more than seven | million.

We believe that when the public ‘or sidetracked nearly all progressive nounced completion of arrangements |generally. understands the high social measures urgently needed for | for the city to function as a port for prices can be pushed back to their | goals sought by labor and the val- the welfare ‘and properity of the international air express to Mexico + normal levels. This can only be ac- | uable services rendered to the na- American. people.

tion by the trade union movement,

it will reject the flood of anti-labor | {a permanent FEPC, an adequate] will handle direct air shipments to which reactionary. | {minimum wage, exp@hded social se- |or from the foreign points for comos have poured out against us. curity, gnd a real full employers: | mesial firms, he said.

propaganda

It is also.true that the reactional | majority of congress has defeated

It has "failed to | pass legislation for housing, health,

MURRAY -

since the ending of war hae zes the meager progress made |

{ program, and :it- has allowed the poll tax to continue to mock our

democracy by denying the'-right to ment which loomed threateningly economy that will attain the vote to ten million American citi-

zens. On this Labor day toe labor move- |- ment must resolve to rise to its full responsibilities, taking the lead to "or ing our country back to the true path of progress. . The C. I. O.; for its part, has engaged in a great. organizing campaign to bring the benefits of unionism" to unorganized workers ‘in the {South and other parts of the coun~ try. | : It will use its rapidly growing strength to combat inflation by mobilizing consumers to resist high= er prices; by demanding the vigor. {ous enforcement of remaining controls, and by calling for government, | industry, and lahor to plan joint measures to meet the growing need of the people. The Political Action Committee of the C. I. O. will also mobilize the efforts of its members and seek the co-operation of all forward-looking Americans to educate the public on the vital issues of the day and the voting records of their representatives to encourage all eligible voters | to go to the polls and vote: and to secure the election of members of congress who will enact progressive | legislation to meet the people's | needs. The C. I. O. will intensify its

{in the councils of the United Na-

| operation between the peoples of all i nations.

INDIANAPOLIS NOW ‘PORT G.” A. McLachlan, Railway Express general agent here, today an-

land Europe. Under the plan, Railway express

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By Scripps-Howard Grins

the holiday, finds spokesmen tor organized labor claiming that the American union movement is at an | all-time peak of strength. Labor. ‘day also finds some of la--

| bor’s friends counseling union lead-

/ ie ers that now Is the time to take! inventory of faults as well as vir«|

| tues; and to take-steps to eliminate

the evils that may produce strong

It. was an industrial union which drastic union-control laws.

was started around 1869, came out

One of these friends is the Rev.

into the open In 1880, grew like &| py. william Smith, a Jesuit priest weed and collapsed for lack of good | {of Brooklyn, founder ofs Crown |

organization. . In New York “City on the first | Monday of September in 1882 al contingent of the Knights observed | a holiday highlighted by -a parade | along Broadway. i They. repeated this performance | the following year and in 1884 | "adopted a resolution calling for the! first Monday in every September | to become a legal holiday known as Labor day. Then they took steps to win it recognition as such and! _other umions backed them in their "campaign. In 1887 Oregon became the firs st | state to recognize it as a legal holi- | day. New -York, New Jersey: and | Colorado soon duplicated this act.] _ Congress Fell in ‘Line. Then "in" 1804 congress adopted

legal national holiday. But this would benefit only District of “Columbia and federal employees elsewhere unless the separate states had taken action. The states did and by 1928 Wyoming was the only one without a legal Labor day. Since then it has come into the fold. “I'm not sure when it happened,” said a female voice from the office of Wyoming's Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, “but I. know that we do observe Labor day out there.” ““The Canadians string along with us on Labor day's date and observa« tion. Most of its provinces observe it by law, the rest by governor's proclamations. But in Russia and most of Europe the celebration of Labor day comes on May 1and is a holiday primarily for workers rather than a wholesale affair_as it is in this country.

“FREIGHT RATE WAR

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (U. P,).— The civil aeronautics board was urged today to act to prevent chaos among air freight carriers as a result af the current ‘rate war.” H. Roy Penzell, president, of the Air Transport Corp., said the rate cutting spree had given the industry a “severe setbatk” dnd. took issue

Prescott, president of ‘the Independent Air Freight Association, Ine. that it was “good for business.” ‘Declaring: that his company will not’ accept .carge at less than 17] cents a ton-mile, Mr. Penzell told

the CAB that “with present cargo pquipment and safé’ payloads it is

impossible to show a pofit in the operation even at-12' cents a mile.”|

| Heights Associated Activities, an in- | the seeds of its own dissolution.”

stitute of free adult edueation in| social studies and ‘ social action with strong emphasis on the problems of working people. Fr. Smith has .become a well known commentator im -this field He has written a book, “Spotlight | on Labor Unions.” Bi

Defends Labor Unionism

This book defends labor unionism and. deprecates its abuses; analyses {and approves the A. F.of L., but exposes. its basic weaknesses;- commends apd cautions the C..1. 0. and castigates the Communists; en-| courages the honest or legitimate independents and excoriates com-pany-dominated unionism. It supports the right to strike, promotes the principle of the closed shop while pointing out its potential dangers; approves political ac- | tion but repudiates the present setup of C. 1. O.-P. A. C. Ik In addition, Fr. Smith recalls th | extensive fashion the sins of man- | agement which brought on the La Follette investigation of labor spies and eventually the enactment of the | national labor relations act Some quotations from the book: Progressive Labor Group “Not even its enemies wonld | uestion the statement that the .1.O, is the most progressive lakor organization in the world, . .-.| It has brought substantial benefits to mildons of _workers,- Tt has stirred the A.F.of L. to action and

revitalized many of its elders into same experience be repeated In the the

something of their former mili-

« The dation salutes his past ‘accomplishrents sand looks Torward. | estimated.

to continued . achievement by that walker,

| should be dethroned.

laiming Virtues

rtancy. (But) Communist infiltra- |

concentrated in .certain spots, is real, substantial and well rooted. “It is not so much a, poison that affects the minds of ‘the rank and] | file but rather a power that has] been gained. by very clever strate-| gical maneuvers in planting party | members or sympathetic stooges'in| Key positions in various interna-| tional and local unions. . . . Stalin's stooges . cannot be ousted or dis-

or even the destruction of the whole C.1.O. For this reason, it is our | opinion that” the C.I.O. contains

Asset to Workers “The A ‘P.pfL has been in the past and is‘today a great asset to the workers of America. . . . (But)

undemocratic, semi-dictator, Fascist- i (minded men, by rigged or no elec- |

tions at all, have usurped authority | in some A.F.of L. unions and they | Initiation | fees, while justifiable in “principle, | are out of proportion to the benefits | that some unions ¢an or do offer. “The work-permit racket Was | done to death in some localities | during the war and. gave such a | black eye to trade unionism that | it. should be outlawed for all time. “It is a pretty persistent custom | in the A.F.ofL. to discriminate | against the colored, either: openly or covertly, Small ‘employers and little businessmen are still intimidated at times by thugs who masquerade as union representatives.” Legislation on Way

“The handwriting is on the wall, Legislation is coming, -Is lator wrong: is opposing it? , . , Labo | must be prepared to accept a small | dose of remedial medicine now or perhaps be compelled to undergo a| painful major operation .a little | later.” Fr, Smith recalls that “manage-

a spree of wild liberty,” and: that last Labor day the sympathetic secretary of labor, Mr." Schwellenbach, | “cautioned union. leaders. lest the |”

case of the labor movement.’

| operations.”

Em SS —— a

i ago, due largely to the Chrysler

real miracle marn-—the American |

+ UMW “soumnal Says Sore

| “sta nd-patters among” the opera-

{tives will meet here Sept. 10 to re-

| supervisory workers to join the

“opposition to the right of super-

| week, all by Ford of Canada. ” ’

HOLDS WORKERS |

"WANT MINE PACT!

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U:.P)— The United Mine Workers (A. F. of L.) Journal says the union is anxious for a wage agreement with the soft coal industry but that an ac{cord will be impossible unless

| tors” throw off the domination of scuthern producers.

Union amd company representa-

fume negotiations for the first time since last May, when their conferences collapsed and the government seized the mines. Solid Fuels Administrator J. A. Krug and U. M. W. President John L. Lewis _subsequently negotiated an agreement for the duration of government operation.

The new conferences have been called” in .an effort to get the government out of the coal mining busness. Anxious for Settlement

“The U. M. W. is as anxious as Wall Street or any segment of the {coal operators and the politicians that a satisfactory wage agreement | be negotiated, through the process lof collective bargaining. that will rgturn the mines to private ownership.” the Journal said. It said the U. M. W. consistently has opposed government ownership and any form of nationalization of coal mining. It charged that the southern coal operators have never accepted collective bargaining and that they #have succeeded in ‘Winning converts to their un-American program in other coal fields.”

Hopes Standpatters Change

“Unless the operators who pin}. | their hopes on legislation to end

collective bargaining are willing to {meet- in the American way, ac- | cepting American law as now written on the statute books as the basis governing collective bargain ing and contractual relations, then the conference called by Adm. Ben Morrell - (coal mines administrator) will run up against the same stone wall’ that blocked a settlement in previous negotiations,” the Journal

“Thus, ¥f the &andpatters among operators , prevent another | settlement, such failure will of necessity continue-government administration of bituminous coal mine

The Journal said the right of

U. “M. W: undoubtedly would be tested in the U.S. supreme court, but criticized the operators for their

| visory workers to unionize,

CAR PRODUCTION DIPS 18,952 UNITS IN WEEK

DETROIT, Sept. 2 (U.| P).— American’ and Canadian auto production totaled - 69,638 units last week, a drop of 18,952 from a week

Corp... shutdown, the Automotive News reported today. Despite the week's drop, U,. 8S. auto plants made 347,120 cars and trucks during - August; compared with 313,779 An July, the publication Canadian output fell from 2723 a week ago to 1371 this

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