KALEIDOSCOPE OF LABOR
KALEIDOSCOPE OF LABOR The World Trade Union Conference voted unaniI moutly againat the admittance of the Lublin trade X union representative. The Polish trade union ^jfremrw* was already...
...It Is suggested that the word "free" be deleted wherever it appears above...
...Stimulants now being administered are temporarily effective, but bring on complete physical breakdown or death after long-term dosage...
...And now the Czechoslovak Press Bureau reports the formation of • "free" trade union in libertted eastern Slovakia...
...Chief fear Is that the Maryland bill Is a trial balloon, to see whether the same legislation could be passed In other states and finally in Congress...
...Allied transmitters have broadcast to Germany an Eisenhower proclamation promising German workers that they will be allowed to form democratic trade unions as soon as circumstances permit...
...0) American seamen returning from a Russian port state that the American Consul came aboard ship to tell them: "When you go ashore, keep your eyes open and your mouth closed...
...basic workweek in Germsny now is 60 hours for Germans, 72 for foreign workers...
...Unemployed able-bodied men in Paris alone number some 800,000...
...Thomas Parian, Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, would make high-grade medical ears and equipment available to almost everybody in the country...
...A few weeks ago the War Labor Board found that beer ia a war essential, and that the strike of the Teamster's Union (AFL) at three St...
...Their aim is to eliminate present inequality of educational opportunity, and afford to workers the opportunity of taking their rightful place in the future of the country...
...6—Compulsory arbitration of all dlspates before a« strike is called...
...Mere Is what the new bill provides: 1—Registration of all anions with the He.ret.rf of State...
...The Print Cloth Group of Cotton Manufacturers are actively combatting union efforts to raise the minimum wage to 60 cents an hour and generally eliminate the north-south differentisl in textiles...
...At least 60 percent of them plan to stay on the Coast after the war...
...Me Herald-Tribune has spoken tijitorially of the) "wrathful GI" when he hears that (bjte war* 6,000 strikes during 1944...
...The letter provided the exact wording of the llaw, apparently in the hope, said union officials, that the legislators of Maryland would adopt the Florida version...
...The WPB in its original VK -day reconversion plan Mtlmsted a 40-60 percent cutback in w»r production...
...Present military estimates plan on only 17 percent...
...Labor anions are establishing labor universities ia several important industrial centers in France...
...The failure of Kolodsiejs la get into the conference, however, is not the setback to the Lublin provisional government that it may appear...
...1 The closed shop is outlawed...
...It will, however, be vigorously combatted by opponents of socialized medicine...
...Shipyard workers m BalthnOregon the second or third shift cannot attend the same meeting that daytime workers can, he said...
...0—A strike could not bo sailed without a threefifths majority of the union membership voting In favor...
...OP Both CIO and AFL leaders In Washington and Maryland have expressed opposition to the bill, and will testify before any committee of the Maryland General Assembly if hearing...
...Verified reports show that foreign labor often works as much aa 84 hours weekly...
...7—Llsting-f f all officers of the union with the Secretary »f St»te...
...Paul, Minnesota, breweries "substantially interfered with the war effort...
...Labor's suspicion that there may be a definite hookup between the "Christian American Association'' and the 'present Maryland anti-labor drive was underlined by the discovery that the chief backer of the Maryland bill (if not its inspiration) is the "American Citizens' Association...
...The organization of 1,000,000 workers in eight weeks is an all-time record—even for the GPU...
...It ii probable that over-all reconversion plans will be •trapped, and civilian production' will be handled by "spot authorisations...
...The new unions will not be permitted any militaristic or political coloration, and strike and lockouts will be forbidden...
...The Teachers Quild, now campaigning in Albany for wage adjustments and other rights, has the support of over 600 AFL city locals on the Central Trades and Labor Council...
...In addition, according to Buxbaum, the proposed law would practically make impossible the election of union officers, election could bo only by a majority of duespaying mem bus...
...Scores of Maryland plants, Buxbaust pointed out, are on war work, and operating two and three shifts...
...are held...
...The letter was signed by State Representative Joseph C. Jenkins, of Alachua County, and was written on stationery of the Florida House of Representatives...
...The CIO Marine Shipbuilders and an inde- • pendent union in the yards will enter the lists next fall against the various AFL craft unions with whom, Higgins has complained, he has trouble in doing business, due to frequent jurisdictional disputes...
...The Tribune would do much to prevent that wrath if it were to present all the facta and refrain from instructing the jaMlir ia wrath towards an ill-painted dummy...
...The tremendous influx of Southern Negroes into West Coast industry (they couldn't get jobs in the South) promises a considerable population dislocation...
...By Robert Park Mill* • The nation-wldt hospital system called for by Dr...
...In any case, although the OPA is working on plans for getting low-priced clothing back on the market, there Is no evidence that any immediately remedial action will be taken for several months...
...As far as you can tell from the published figures of the Bureau of Labor S^istics the price of clothing went up only 27 percent from 1941 to early 1944...
...UNION-BUSTING DRIVE CROSSES STATE LINES WASHINGTON (LPA).—A nationwide campaign to destroy American labor organisations reaehed from Florida to Maryland last week, with Indications that the union-busting drive would be carried into other states if it succeeded in Maryland' Every member of the Maryland State legislature, which was considering the worst anti-labor bill in the memory of U. S. Labor Department officials, was sent a personal letter by a member of the Florida House of Representatives...
...In spite of the impressive figures seen in many etaaervative publications, the actual time lost from feeilng days between 1941-1946 amounted to only onetnth of, one percent...
...Returning Japanese and servicemen will further swell the census...
...The discrepancy is only partly accounted for by the fact that the BLS figures do not consider low-priced clothing separately...
...If you get into a Jam, there is nothing I can do to help you...
...AFL and CIO officials, who suspect that the bill Was inspired by the misnamed "Christian American Association"—which is supporting anti-labor bills in a dozen states—are furious over the letter and are trying to ascertain whether Jenkins has any connection with the "Christian Americans" or any of its branches in other states.| Jenkins' letter, which was not requested by any member of the Maryland legislature, called the legislators' attention to the Florida anti-closed shop law...
...The.proposed Maryland law, according to Buxbaum, "Would practically pjut unions out of buffets...
...That opinion wss shared by Labor Department officials, whs declared that the statute is the worst that has ever come to their attention...
...9 Although Phil Murray and all other non-Commu»ist CIO leaders are sgainst peacetime conscription /'fit Michigan Labor Committeee Against Peacetime Conscription is ClO-sponsored, for instance), the CIO ^ttCoiuin State Industrial Union Council was only a ^ntk behind the Communist Political Association with their public endorsement of postwar conscription...
...Florida recently enacted a so-called "right to work" law which was opposed by all of organised labor...
...aid it <U felt that discussion of the position gf the Lublin representative, Kolodsiejs, a Communist, *»ttM only diBrupt tne unity of the confer*nce...
...I—No secondary boycott and M picketing by anyone other than the strikers themselves...
...The Lublin government has announced that over . 1490,000 Polish workers have been organized into •free" trade unions...
...The Nazi labor front will be disbanded...
...The Polish trade union ^jfremrw* was already represented by Jan Stanczyk, Deputy Chairman of a freely-elected trade union etttiKi...
...Stanczyk, along with Mikolajczyk, may have to eompromise with the "broadened" provisional government as recommended at the Yalta meeting...
...It will pushed "with organized political pressure" if the OPA doesn't side with the southern manufacturers...
...William P. Jacobs, executive director, has suggested that sn amendment to the OPA act be drawn up for "use as a threat...
...2—Filing of annasl financial reports with the 8ec> retary of State...
...Acniniiiiir to an unnuhlished reuort of the Office of Civilian Requirements the increase for low-price clothing in that period was 96 percent...
...After ail flint refusal, Kolodsiejs tried to get in as representative of the Seamen's Union, although his union's rtry recent application to that body has not yet been ratified In any ease, the Seamen's Union was created ia London by the Polish trade union group and thus in represented by Stanczyk...
...Maryland State AFL President Robert Buxbeum told LPA that he believed that there may bo a tie-up between the "Amerioan Citizens' Association" and the "American Christian Front," another anti-labor organization that has been putting pressure on stats legislatures and Congressmen for passage of anti-labor laws...
...The French Ministry of Labor is requisitioning 1,000,000 laborers for reconstruction work, as a first step toward nation-wide labor conscription...
...Higgins' attempt to cancel his contract with 38 AFL affiliates was defeated, but the contract expires in September...
...The WMC recently removed many workers from an Allsntown brewery and set them to work In "war plants...
...Russian longshoremen work in 12-hour shifts...
Vol. 28 • February 1945 • No. 7
