CIO LAGISLATIVE PARLEY HERE ASKS HEIL DEFEAT, STATE LABOR ACT REPEAL
CIO Legislative Parley Here Asks Heil Defeat, State Labor Act Repeal 1OO Delegates Ask End of Picketing, Cigaret Tax Laws RESOLUTIONS urging the defeat of Gov. Julius P. Hell In the 1940 election,...
...under the guise of improving the act...
...election on the question of repealing the tenure act...
...that 18,000 will be laid off In Wisconsin...
...Condemns Heil's Record In its resolution opposing the reelection of Gov...
...The Madison conference, which was one of a series held throughout Wisconsin during the past two months, under auspices of the Wisconsin State CIO council and local CIO central bodies, went on record in additional resolutions as follows: 1. Supported the state teacher tenure law, under which teachers are given permanent tenure after a five year probationary period, and urged "all laboring men in Wisconsin to vote 'no' un the referendum in the Apr...
...9. Urged congress to kill all amendments to the national labor relations act (Wagner act) submitted by Cong...
...3. Urged the appropriation of more money by congress "for the purchase of surplus farm commodities, which would aid the farmers as well as the underprivileged unemployed...
...Heil, the CIO conference said: "Resolved, thai this conference condemn the Heil administration for its efforts in behalf of the vested Interests of the state as opposed to the...
...Following is the conference resolution urging repeal of the state cigaret tax: "Resolved, that this conference support the repeal of the cigaret tax as being unfair to workers In making them pay without regard for their ability, and that this conference support Income tax measures based on ability to pay as a means of raising revenue...
...Suported the LaFollelte-Thomas oppressive labor practices act, now before congress, which would outlaw the use of industrial spies and the purchase of munitions by industrial concerns for use against workers...
...is in reality seeking to nullify it.'' 10...
...and that "a CIO unemployment survey shows there are now 11,936,000 unemployed in the nation...
...The more important problems which affect ever one including the farmer, are unemployment, monopoly, war...
...Ask WPA Increase J. Vised all congressmen to work for a larger WPA appropriation, so that "hundreds of workers will not he thrown upon relief and deprived of a livelihood...
...Johnson Introduced the speakers and conducted the discussion which followed the addresses...
...Both of these c-uls were approved yesterday by the house appropriations committee...
...Schools, roads, national defense and welfare are the big items of government expense, Groves said...
...interests of the working man, and its firing of state employes in an alleged economy move, and that this conference urge all working men and women in Wisconsin to work actively for the defeat of Gov...
...Julius P. Hell In the 1940 election, and repeal of the Wisconsin "employment peace act...
...7. Urged introduction and passage of a state youth bill in the Wisconsin legislature...
...Some economizing has doubtful value and is plain parsimony, as in the wholesale dismissal of government employes...
...These resolutions were adopted by the Madison CIO legislative conference after the national and state CIO legislative programs had been outlined and explained by speakers representing the state executive board of the Wisconsin CIO council...
...The conference resolution opposing the state "employment peace act" and the Catlin anti-picketing laws, which were enacted by the 1939 legislature, urged all labor groups to "support all candidates for the legislature who pledge themselves to repeal these laws at the 1941 session of the legislature, and enact a genuine labor relations act...
...said Groves, "includes a strengthened income tax, Tr gher inheritance taxes, more state aid for schools and roads, and a state equalization of public utility taxes, which now are paid Into a few favored communities...
...What the farmers want in the way of a tax program...
...Groves declared, would be a wiser choice of outlays, such as spending for education rather than battleships, greater use of civil service to promote efficiency, and proper purchasing...
...Heil in his candidacy for re-election...
...The conference was opened by Ced-rlc Parker, secretary of the Madison CIO council, who Introduced the chairman of the meeting, Clifford Johnson, president of the local CIO central body...
...With the present taxation system not bringing in sufficient income, 'economy' has become a much-abused political slogan," he said...
...6. Opposed the threatened cut in NYA funds by congress, and supported the American Youth act, now before congress...
...5. Supported the CIO's national legislative program, the Wisconsin CIO's state legislative program, and praised John L Lewis "for his efforts to build the CIO as a bulwark against those who would involve America in Europe's war, and for his efforts to bring those who have deserted the New Deal back to their original principles...
...and the restoration of the national income...
...I can work out a lax program that practically everyone would be satisfied with," Prof, Harold M. Groves said In a talk on "The W: onsln Tax Problem" at the Memorial Union before the newly-organized Farmers Union college local...
...PASS THIS PATER ON Jobs, War Are Big Problems, Groves Says SatisfactoryTaxProgram Could Be Worked Out, He Asserts "If someone else can solve the problems of unemployment and war...
...8. Opposed the proposed cut of $337,000 from the appropriation of the national, labor relations board, and the proposed reduction of $1,080,000 from the fund of the wages and hours administration...
...James DeWitt, international representative of the CIO agricultural workers' union, spoke on labor's attitude against war...
...Smith (D-Va...
...Speakers Outline CIO Programs Speakers were Nathan Garfield, international representative of the United Shoe Workers of America, who spoke on the national CIO legislative program, and .Mel J. Heinritz, national representative of the State, County & Municipal Workers of America, who discussed the CIO's state legislative program...
...A more constructive economy, Prof...
...the Catlin anti-picketing bill, and the state cigaret tax in the next legislature, were adopted by more than 100 CIO and AFL union members attending the Madison CIO council's regional legislative conference last week at the Loraine hotel...
...Taxes, although serious, are not the major farm problem...
...4. Urged the University of Wisconsin administration to form a labor advisory committee, consisting of representatives of all labor groups, to co-operate with the administration of the university school for workers...
...whose anti-labor record is well known, and who...
...Stale to Assist Braille Program The state emergency board last week approved an appropriation of $2,348 for participation by the state superintendent of public instruction in a WPA project including a Wisconsin state Braille program, This project will provide employment for 210 persons for one year...
...The resolution urging a larger WPA appropriation pointed out that by June 1, approximately 700,000 WPA workers will be laid off under the curtailed federal program...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
