Labor and Public Opinion

...Surely it is no contrbuton to a sound national morale, upon which so much of our war effort depends...

...The international mess in which we find ourselves at the present time could easily have been avoided if tiie situation of the last eight years had been viewed with some kind of definite courage and if the world at large had been sufficiently disciplined to understand that no' nation can ever hope to survive unless it accept those responsiblities which are an integral part of the business of being a big nation...

...Occasionally we were reminded that all this could come to no good end but whenever that happened one of the toastmasters would get np, would bang on the table, and would talk eloquently about the God-given virtues of democracy, asking his audience with an ominous glare who it was that dared question the superior qualities of the American way of living, after which he would order cream-puffs for all around and would gain loud applause by misquoting a few passages from either Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln...

...Many well-meanins...

...BIG-BUSINESS IHNDS UlLUOMS TO FAN ANTIUNION HATRED — L>WQ* SPfN05 NOTHING FOR DEFfNU Ail this, of course, costs money, The beat available figures, compiled by the LaFoHst» Committee show that over $3,500,000· a year ]a spent to put over the N.A.M ? program^ of which $800.000 is in direct allotments *y the Association and the rest in remtributietos by local employers and employers assocjattenffej ?. And the National Association of Majrafactcm-ers, of course, is not the only organization «I its kind carrying on this type of alleged "educational" work...

...Father Rafael Angel Chacin, a Venezuelan priest who has just returned from Italy, declared that the food situation there is critical and that the people are eating black bread made from starch rationed to 120 grams daily...

...to manage a shop with three workers, permit themselves to be photographed for the newspapers and to be described in the news as indo-trial managers...

...Father Chacin also reported that the Italian people understand that this "is a party war...

...when the men who do the work of the nation are pictured either as cunning criminals or as stupid, spiritless victims or accomplices...

...It would have taken hard and...

...But I am beginning to suspect something...

...Its message is directed against labor unions and labor leaders as well as against all efforts of the government to alleviate distress and improve social conditions...

...That is what we of the labor movement are up against ]* Even the minds of the children are poisoned One .example among many: Early thisyedk...

...THE AFL leaders who, on the whole, show a * sluggish reaction to national and international affairs, have exhibited a new awareness, even restiveness...

...For most of the honest men and women who take pen in band to express their views upon a fellow-eitiien ¦ with whom they disagree upon some minor point of religious doctrine, feel compelled to bear witness to \heir own staunch convictions by calling their opponents all the unpleasant names they can...

...Regional conferences to reach clergymen are organized...

...In his siive way he had thought that by referring to the "life of Christ in this indirect way he would ••tape the furor theologicus that would have •risen had he given a rationalistic description of the historical meaning of Christianity...

...More and more people in and out of the labor movement are becoming convinced that unless labor is united, we cannot win the war, and even if we win the war, we will surely lose the peace...

...That President Roosevelt took such an eventuality into consideration is seen by some in the fact that after Sidney Hillman left Washington to return to his duties in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, President* Roosevelt called him back to help chart labor's turbulent course...

...The war and the complexity of its multitudinous problems—the Second Front, war strategy, manpower problems, questions of...

...Despite all the fine words about national unity, labor unions and collective bargaining we 'hear -from some of the employers these days—and I am not casting any doubt on their sincerity— let there but be an unfavorable shift in the political or economic situation and some of these gentlemen will be among the first to crack down and attempt to "deflate" labor—that -was what they called it last time...

...But the issue that plagued the AFL delegates and will undoubtedly also plague the delegates to the CIO convention is not the war issue...

...A great many among us writers are apt to forget that this Republic of ours is still essentially a Religious Land in the sense that people continue to tike a more vital and direct interest in the formal aspects of religion than in anything else...

...Without the firm bedrock of public acceptance to fall back upon, the labor movement could not bold out in the stormy days following World War 1. ·* Twenty years have gone by since those days...

...peoy« were taken in by the deluge of articles, ufl pays newspaper and magazine advertisement*, interviews, radio talks and pictures all haFptog en this one theme and considerable 1...

...I shall not bore you with a discussion of what went wrong with our educational system but it produced a crop of boys and girls who were wildly going places without having the least idea whither they were bound and who were condemned to be perpetual misfits in a world, which would cease to function within five minutes if we let all discipline go to Hell...

...Letter to My Son The Hope of Human Liberty By HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON •jELOVED SON: In ???* respects your father "is pretty bright but in other respects he is jgegrsbly dumb and apparently never can nor ?? learn anything from experience...

...4* The left-wing unions represent numerically a small part of the CIO, but because qf the procedure in which every International .has one representative on the CIO Executive Board, the Communists—who control a number of small unions—have a powerful voice in the decisions of the Executive Board...

...The Dutch language, being a crude and plain-spoken tongue, expresses it in somewhat more drastic terms, but for the moment I had better leave that to your fertile imagination and proceed to the next part in today's little homily...

...labor's position is actually misrepresented and distorted by the other side...

...Through newspapers, radio, motion pictures, pay-roll stuffers, billboard advertisements, civic-program meetings and large-scale advertising, national and local, the propaganda of the big corporations reaches into every city, town and village in the country and has its effect on virtually every section of the population...

...You must have guessed what I am aiming at I am about to mount my faithful old steed and trot gaily off in the general direction of that most important of all subjects—discipline...

...fXS the CIO side, one of the members of the ^ committee of three is Julius Emspack, the left-wing boss of the Electrical Workers Unto...

...At any, rate, the answer cannot be delayed much longer...

...Scores of speakers in every community are constantly available for assignment by the central speakers committee...

...It must be clear to these men that neither of them could become the leader of a united labor movement In addition, it is also true that their stepping aside is not completely out of line with their personal desires...

...The next time your old man -wants to do a little fighting, he will take oh Joe Louis, for, bless bis soul J that dark-skinned boy is lily-white when it comes to fighting a clean fight and now that he has left the ring, he might well devote bis time to teaching our theologues how to be gentlemen when they put on the gloves and strip for action in a controversy based upon spiritual values...

...It is a wtB-caleulated, cleverly devised move to take the credit for the nation's great war prod*ctijsn effort away from labor and to appropriate it for the benefit of the bankers and financiers...

...Or, in other and plainer words, and borrowing an expression from the vernacular of your Dutch ancestors, "whosoever site himself down on a hot stove, most also expect to sit on the ensuing blisters...

...To which your papa e»n only make reply that one of the few things Particular Deity and, himself have in com-B°n, is a profound love for the music of the i^eat composers of the eighteenth century and that he has gradually learned to contemplate *e whole of Creation from the same joyous *ngle as Haydn did when in his Oratory of the •»nie name he made "the Heavens declare the Glory of God" and as Mozart did in every one of his operas and as Bach did in all his fugues...

...It certainly would not detract from the record of their accomplishments if they were to achieve the unification of American labor as the last'act of their national labor leadership...

...Millions of booklets are distributed in elementary schools and high schools for the pupils and their parents...

...DO you remember the sudden flood of so-called "explanations" of the fall of France fft loose towards the end of MOT 0uast)tJwl»aB fjb explanations led up to the conclusion tbatjt was labor and labor legislatier*¦* ?^??, especially the 40-hour week, that were responsible for the collapse, and of course the iesean was drawn that America should **w*Ib»" 1...

...Their convention this week in Boston can be expected to register their attitude strikingly...

...0y this time your father (Jimmie objects to the word "Pa"), if he really had any sense, should have learned to avoid any kind of reference (however indirect) to matters that might be even remotely connected with the disturbing realm of the second science of Theology...

...I "riE methods it uses are most up-to-date...

...This puts Philip Murray in a very difficult predicament...

...It would be quite impossible even te make the roughest guess as to the vast sums 'and the tremendous machinery involved, but iht total must be enormous...

...Those who might remain in control would represent so insignificant a group that they would cease to have any influence Upon the course of the labor, movement in America...

...labor peace be achieved...

...He *sa aeter more mistaken in all his life, for trict or--three times each week somebody writes Wsj, from some remote part of the Republic and insist that he explain exactly what he meant by Publishing these letters...

...On many occasions they muster enough votes to form a majority...

...Then, for good measure, his correspondent calls him an impostor «nd threatens that (unless he forthwith produce those letters in their original version) he *? expose him as a liar and a cheat...

...Financiers and Wall Street bankers who know nothing about production, who wouldn't be...

...For democracy can hardly survive in a society torn apart by mutual hatreds and suspicions, in a society where even the elementary rights of self-organization and collective bargaining are constantly culled into question...

...Joint "home-industry" conferences are being staged, in addition to so-called "study courses" for women's clubs and similar groups...

...I AST week we happened to get into a discus-™ sion about the slightly shop-worn problem of "the younger generation...

...He therefore makes regular promises to himself that he will never, never again fall into the same trap, but those jolemn vows are on a par with^his daily pledge thst from now on he will smoke only one cig-trette after each meal...

...They do not place the interests of the nation and of labor as a whole above their own interest* Among those who stand in the way of labor unity is John L. Lewis, Lewie, of course, disclaims that...

...We had long since consumed our legitimate portion of freedom and were living on all kinds of substitutes, prepared in the laboratories of the psychological cooks...

...The American Federation of Labor ended its sessions on October 15th in Toronto, and the Congress of Industrial Organizations will begin its deliberations on November 9th in Boston...

...Asa result of his queer creed, bis own particular Deity is a delightful Old gentleman, an understanding old friend, who has known the family for hundreds of years and who, like an old family-physician, knows so much about their few virtues and their many shortcomings that he understands them as thoroughly as you, by this time, must have come to...

...The decorations consisted of one /American and one British flag and a few war posters...

...I» this case, fortunately, the American Federation of Labor was.able to uncover evidence, thai, this campaign of letter-writing by children, allegedly "spontaneous," had been initiated fir the principal of the school who required teach elis to get the children to write these letters *» Congressmen...

...But the generation that was supposed to handle the situation had never heard of responsibilities...

...Mr...

...They do not recognize the demands of the crisis imposed upon us by the war...

...This pamphlet will be circulated in millions of copies throughout the country and will find its ? into every industrial city and town of the lean...

...It is now more than twenty years ago that your father's Story of Mankind first appeared and even today hardly a week goes by without some one writing him a letter about 'those two documents, printed in that Story of Mankind, which pretended to give an account of the life of Christ Your father had invented those letters to sypid all possible controversies upon this very hnportant incident in human history...

...The Steel Workers and tbe Auxo Wqtkers at that convention were responsible for adopting a system of voting in the State CIQ ¦ based not upon one representative from each union, as in the past, hut based upon the number of dues-paying members a union represents...

...This article and the one next week are based on Mr...

...As if a man who had spent all his livelong-days pryingjnto the behavior of his fellow-creatures from the days of the Black Cave to those of the White House could have failed to notice that this is, after all, a world based upon certain very definite and immutable moral laws...

...Not that our own younger generation happens to be more obnoxious than that kind of fauna in other parts of the world...

...But while we were unconcernedly raising the younger generation on this dreadful diet of mush, which we made them wash down with vast bumpers of wishful thinking, we were all of us talking at the same time and laughing uproarously whenever some obnoxious guest had the effrontery to remind us that this was no way to bring up a strong and efficient nation of usefully functioning citizens...

...There are powerful organisations at work operating large-scale, well planned, well-financed public-relations activities...

...The time has come when it will be' impossible for him to vacillate much longer...

...Hutcheson is one of the three member* of the AFL committee that is to negotiate a peace with the CIO...

...be concluded next stosA) Publicity "fcjEW LEADER read-ers will remember the Holies printed her* . several months age ? about the new "educational" campaign of the National Association of Manufacturers: ? tie-up was made with the large National Educational Association far joint conferences to dieters the rake of baamess and the American way...

...Labor Movement Faces Issue of Unity as Conventions Shape AFL and CIO Policies By EPHRAIM SCHWARTZMAN...

...Emspack speaks not only for the Electrical Workers, but also for Joe Cui...

...Experience has taught him that in their holy zeal...

...Bat labor isn't getting thst message across to the public...

...Everything must be cajoled out of the juvenile soul by means of plausible persuasion...

...Congressmen were deluged with thousands ? letters from junior high school...

...part labor is playing in the war effort...

...Commerce, and there are the individual big corporations, each with its own high-powered publicity program...

...There can be little douht that they would find wide support among American workers who are ardent in their desire that labor peace be realized...

...But thirty years ago we threw discipline overboard for our psychologists and psycho-analysts had discovered that discipline interfered with the free functioning of genius and as every child ander the new dispensation was proclaimed a potential genius, discipline must not be allowed to throttle the talents which the youthful genius was bound to display if only .given a..chance to let them come into full fruition...

...They are solidly united in their opposition to peace in the labor movement...

...Will Philip Murray, however, take this step...

...This sudden tie-up with production is certainly not accidental...

...They probably will not be able to use the methods and instruments of twenty years ago— I certainly hope we have got rid of the "yellow-dog" contract, and the anti-labor injunction tor good and all—but they can think up new ones that will be just as effective, and they still have plenty of tiie old tricks left Face to face with such a concerted offensive upon its organizations and standards, will the labor movement be able to fall back upon the masses of our people, upon public sentiment, for strength and support ? • · · ff ET us face the facts...

...Production will have to be increased many-fold...

...The findings of the LaFollette committee, set up in 1936 as a result of the action of our Federation convention in 1935, provide us with a vivid picture of the extensive and far-flung propaganda activities of this employer .group...

...They are addicts of hymns ">d few of those, as you will recollect, were *dt by the Mozarts, the Haydns or the-Gluecks...

...And when you return, after the job of exterminating the human vermin that has now overrun our fait, planet shall have been successfully accomplished, come back to us, cultivate your garden and raise a crop of children which shall truly understand that discipline is the beginning and the end of a life worthy of civilized human beings...

...After which...

...At the last New York State convention of the CIO, one could glean the beginning ?/ a struggle on the part of Philip Murray to free himself from the grip of this mechanical majority...

...How and in what manner we are ever going to catch up with those stampeded kids, lasso them and drag them back to the corral, I do not know...

...In a united labor movement, many of them would lose control of their unions...

...But it is annoying, and it upsets his pride as a philosopher and an historian or what-haye-you...

...It is not merely that labor's position is unknown to the public because we neglect to make it known...

...Meanwhile some of our fellow-passengers on this planet in remote lands were feeding theii youngsters a very different kind of fare...

...It is reliably reported that both Philip Murray and William Green see eye-to-eye with the President Murray and Green are said to be prepared to sacrifice their personal leadership if this is necessary to bring about labor peace...

...And somewhat later, when the full sordid story of the fall of France really came out, the stdry of corruption and betrayal at the top among politicians, industrialists and military men, ?? our business interests here move a finger »r spend a penny to bring this story to the people ? No, they just shrugged their shoulders and looked the other way...

...Well, you cannot eat your liberty and have it too...

...Whenever a few of our neighbors drop in for a bit of local gossip (though Heaven knows there is little of that well-known suburban article in this particularly pleasant community), the conversation is bound, sooner or later, to touch upon the subject of the younger generation...

...Labor unionism was not, like the family or the church or the school, something habitually taken for granted as an integral part of our democratic way of life—something in itself beyond question or challenge...

...Just the other day, the N.A.M...

...It may become necessary to lengthen the working-day, to conscript millions of workers into an army of production, to reduce greatly the buying power of the workers and to cut deeply into the standard of living of all Americans...

...The weight of hi* optartons win have a tremendous influence oil the entire coarse of the deliberations...

...Hochmaa's remarks to the convention...

...This bit of information may delight you as showing that after all he is very much part of the human race in general, for the human race too is just as Stupid in the year of Grace 1942 as it was in 19^20 or 1,942,000 B.C...

...A lovely idea except for the fact, carefully overlooked by the professors, that when there is nothing present to begin with, you will never be able to bring forth more than there is there and that is exactly nothing...

...Its aim is to forestall union organization and to prejudice the public against unions and unionism in general...

...And if Such moral laws exist (a fact of- which he ii absolutely convinced), then there must have been a law-giver, for laws do not make themselves (except in New Jersey...

...Here are some aspects of this picture...

...Italians Fighting Unwillingly for Fascists...

...Tobin and others are powerful proponents of labor peace, bat there...

...Other strong advocates of labor peace are Sidney Hill man of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and Daniel Tobin of the Teamsters, both of whom have had a high place in the councils of President Roosevelt National interests and the interests of their own organizations would be served if labor peace were achieved,___ Murray, Green, Hillman...

...Can the forces of labor be united...

...This psychological nonsense became the fashion and as pedagogy is almost as much given to fads as medicine, education was deprived of its strongest weapon against slovenliness, laziness and indifference...

...large funds were raised for movie shorts, radio broadcast*, sad a host of speakers to blanket women's clubs, schools, sad chambers of commerce...

...Should he and William Green fail to take the initiative in bringing about labor peace, other forces, especially those controlled by Hutcheson and Lewis, would seize the opportunity to force a labor peace dictated on their own terms...

...Philip Murray is the head of a great union of steel workers which requires a great deal of his attention...

...It had not achieved widespread acceptance, en the part of public opinion as one of the great permanent, basic institutions of the American way of life...

...Workers, Ben Gold's,Furriers, Lewis Merrill's Office and Professional Workers, Michael Quill's Transport Workers, Harry Bridges' Longshoremen, Cheyfitz's Die Casters, and a few other unions, all following the Communis^ party-line...

...For liberty, as a spiritual substance based upon discipline within the framework of reason, still seems to me to be the ultimate and most desirable good of all human endeavors...

...Considerations of health would also make it desirable for him to leave the arduous task of leading the CIO...

...The question that is in the back of every mind in labor circles is...

...How soon labor unity will come may be answered at the CIO convention...

...exact thinking to handle the coming menace of Hitlerism and it was an era" of sloppy thinking in which anything went as long as it did not interfere with a person's so-called "freedom...

...To him, to your father, the problem of creation is really as simple as all that...

...done to our national morale byW?sWHmf* and misrepresentation that was thus spread...

...Oklahoma condemning labor for alleged "sslfis*-ness" and calling for the abrogation of the wage-hour law m the interests of the war...

...rarely bother shout the rules of the Marquis of Queensberry...

...is doubtful whether he woald start by giving every indication that he intends to baud a new Independent movement, and to stimulate and create organization outside of his own industry...

...If Lewis really wanted unity or wished to re eater the AFL...

...It is not Italy, but Fascism, that is making war...

...Bat in spite of all that Ml deads are net these of a man who wants unity...

...understand the dots and dashes of the Morse code...

...For then they have concrete ? proof that this roan takes his own religion "lightly" and that, of course, is the ^"»»t of all possible sins...

...Be it said to the everlasting credit and honor of those fighting youngsters that they have seen the light much sooner than their elders, and so they still may save us from a fate that is so horrible to contemplate that I for one do not care to dwell upon it...

...The Communists have nothing to gain from labor peace, and they have a lot to lose...

...or what is Worse, they harbor misunderstanding, hostility and prejudice...

...Your father who has iow reached that ige at which he eafi be'gi'n to loot' at'himself in a spirit of re-mote alof ? ess, s always slightly amused by those frequent accusations heaved •t him...

...Should he decide upon a course which would be contrary to the wishes of the left-wing unions, hp might be compelled to act against a majority of his own Executive Board...

...production, rationing and distribution—persistently cropped up in all the speeches...

...War I, because, for all its great achievements in numbers and power, it had not secured that one indispensable condition without which all other achievements necessarily remained in jeopardy...

...Until now his attitude has been charaterized by vacillation...

...Large, very large, sec-tions of the American people at this moment have no real understanding of organized labor's aims, ideals and objectives...

...fore it wis too late...

...Unionism was still on the fringe of oar national life, still on trial as far as large sections of oar people were concerned...

...Then you will behold a couple of million boys like yourself who now will have to clean up the men, bestowed upon us by a "generation of those false philosophers who, in the name of their phony science, taught the terrible doctrine that you can get things in this universe of ours without actually working for them...

...Wherefore, beloved infant, learn your mathematics, carry your pack, keep your chin as high as you have done thus far and in so magnificent a manner and God-speed to you and to youre buddies...

...Over eight thousand small-town papers are covered by the Association's press services, in addition to all the leading dailies...

...But even more fundamentally, the false distorted picture of labor and its aspirations thus built up in the minds of millions of our fellow-Americans is a real menace to the stability of our democratic institutions...

...The war issue dominated the formal sessions...

...other conferences in the history of Amer-" ' ican labor movement were as full of significance to the nation and to the working class as the conventions of the two great American labor organizations this season...

...other men and other forces whose interests would not be served by labor peace...

...No part of the country and no section of the people is omitted or ignored in this vast cover-all program of propaganda...

...At the same time, it strives to sway public opinion in favor of its own legislative program which, as you may imagine, reflects the interests ¦„ of the big corporations that control the association...

...T Lewis' opposition to labor unity ts not only motivated by his chagrin over the treatment he has received in the CIO and AFL, but also because he would like to settle a score with President Roosevelt...

...Labor has made immense strides forward, bat tiie fundamental problem still remain...

...It will be quoted again and again by these*aas of speakers, lecturers and editors, yei it will 'it quoted in the very halls of Congress, to make a case against organised labor...

...Right now, in these very days of war, there are forces at work1, operating in the dark it is true, striving to undermine the labor movement '' But what is even more important, the foundations are being laid and the machinery prepared at the first opportunity to pounce down upon labor and do it as much damage as possible...

...That's what Julius Hoch man, Vice-President of the JLGWU, told the Toronto A FL convention recently...

...On the whole, however, your father has some-*bat improved during the last ten years and *» he rarely finds himself engaged in either jjjeobgical or religious controversies...

...They read all sorts of obscure and ominous meanings m some of his simplest remarks and then take him heavily to task...

...The most difficult issues were discussed with candor, with conviction and even with heat There has been a lot of thinking done of late in AFL circles...

...This motive is supposed to have been behind President Roosevelt's action last July, when he confronted Philip Murray and William Green with a demand that they begin negotiations immediately to unify the two labor organizations...

...Daily, Westbrook Pegler perverts incidents within trade unions to condemn the labor , movement as a whole,, despite fsathpesiislr from the administration and intelligent business leaders that labor b doing a top-notch production Job and that Stahle labor relations are indispensible to production...

...At his last convention, h* put himself en record far labor unit...

...Certain newspapermen saw "a connection between this curious incident and the letter-writing drives sponsored by tits United States Chamber of Commerce...

...Applying the same tactics," Philip Murray could, at the national ?? convention, elect an Executive Board which would give hijfi' rtfajority control on the basis of CIO membership...

...Your father,' being an artist, believes in discipline with as much ardor as does your esteemed Sergeant To him, discipline is the beginning and end of all good things, including liberty, which the late and high-esteemed Immanuel Kant defined as "discipline within the framework of reason...

...There was no pussyfooting this time...

...There have been deep changes in the mood and in the thinking of AFL leaders...

...There are the Chambers qf...

...William Green intimated that he will be ready to retire when he reaches the age of 70, and he is now 69...

...Food Situation Critical The Rev...

...What is happening to CIO leaders is not hard, to guess...

...I AM all for offering an equal chance to all * men and women, for they are born so hopelessly unequal that they are most assuredly entitled to the consolation that they started out with an equal chance...

...Just consider the National Association of Manufacturers...

...find in Dr...

...By and large, I think that they grade even a little higher than the common variety because we still have a few homes here and homes are breeding grounds for discipline...

...It only knew about privileges and the word duty had long since been banished, from the dictionary...

...But of course he never lets on as to what b* really feels -upon this subject, for his dear Wends of the other camp wopld never underhand such a light-hearted acceptance of a world °* gloom and sin...

...Surely it is a positive peril to national unity when hatred, suspicion and dissension are recklessly sown...

...Most of his neighbors however regard such a view as an unspeakable heresy...

...COR an answer to the results of this mistaken * attitude, beloved son, look around you...

...let us turn to a more cheerful subject—one of divine retribution—for the Lord is a just Lord and you cannot disobey one of his commands without sooner or later being reminded in a most painful manner that yon have offended against the unwritten but very positive Constitution of the Universe...

...Consequently, the people are not fighting voluntarily or patriotically...

...And he has never quite understood why others should make their religious conceptions about life so hopelessly complicated when they could follow his example and reduce them to a single formula which is as easily grasped as the fact that two and two make four...

...of being a completely Godless person...

...President Roosevelt is said to believe that in order to win the war, a f/r greater national effort will be necessary...

...And he is very much afraid that even at his own funeral he will indulge m a remark that will start the officiating denryman (if one can be found to perform this task over the remains of a notorious freethinker) arguing with his defunct charge and denouncing him far hb wicked snd heretical fiews...

...He dishes rows on general principles, outmost of a" ? dislikes quarrels'with people who have- a blueprint of salvation tucked away somewhere in their soma...

...The burning issues of our time resounded through the convention hall and at times overcame the traditional drab setting of AFL conventions...

...Roget's ^-knowrr Thesaurus...

...Meat is permitted twice a week, he added, if it is available...

...Outwardly, the AFL convention did not differ much from its preceding meetings, but in reality it was as different as a convention of Elks from one held by the Communist Party...

...Another disastrous experience like that after the first world war is by no means impossible...

...issuedr s pamphlet, Wartime Strikes in American-Industry, thst is hardly more than a tissue of distorted facts, misquoted statements and outright falsehoods, ail directed to running down...

...These things cannot be done unless labor is willing to make these sacrifices and takes the initiative in bringing them about As long as the rift is continued, the effective mobilisation of labor is extremely difficult if not impossible...

...When your father thereupon answers them that he really meant nothing at all, at least nothing very serious, they begin to foam at the mouth...

...For the wide majority of ttbe great CIO unions" is undoubtedly for labor peace...

...Conferences between educators and business men are arranged in order to bring the propaganda into the schools...