UPROAR OVER THE TRUMAN PLAN
Uproar Over The Truman Plan Washington, D. C. PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S demand for an immediate end of the United Automobile Workers strike at General Motors so that the dispute could be placed before a...
...Truman proposes to transplant it here...
...Despite the sharpness of labor's attack, Administration leaders drove this week for early action on the Truman plan...
...THE President's proposal drew fire from other labor leaders, including William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America...
...Murray, as reported in the headlines, that the President is seeking to destroy unions," Green said...
...A conference of 14 civic leaders who investigated the GM-UAW dispute upheld the union's contention that an equitable settlement could not be reached until the company...
...Philip Murray, president of the CIO, charged that the Administration had yielded "in abject cowardice" to industry's refusal "to engage in collective bargaining," and with laying the groundwork of a legislative design "to weaken and ultimately destroy labor union organizations...
...Representatives of the UAW not only voted to spurn the White House request in the case of their own strike as "vicious" and "anti-labor," but they resolved to "mobilize our full political power to block such legislation" for labor disputes in general...
...was prepared to discuss the "arithmetic" of the 30 per cent demand GM has consistently refused...
...The AFL president characterized the cooling-off, fact-finding proposal as "not acceptable or satisfactory" to the AFL...
...Meanwhile^ the Office of Stabilization in Washington formally set the cost of living increase since January, 1941, at 33 per cent and ruled that manufacturers could base applications for price increases as a result of wage increases up to that level...
...I disagree with the charges by Mr...
...I don't feel that he is trying to do that...
...The President's demand was part of his general labor program for cooling-off, fact-finding machinery in labor-management disputes...
...Lewis lashed out at the proposal as "a fooler bill to revamp and straitjacket American industrial relations...
...The striking workers are demanding a 30 per cent increase...
...A vote by the rank-and-file membership this week was expected to confirm that action...
...Uproar Over The Truman Plan Washington, D. C. PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S demand for an immediate end of the United Automobile Workers strike at General Motors so that the dispute could be placed before a fact-finding board was unanimously rejected last week by embittered representatives of the 175,000 strikers...
...While denouncing the White House plan, Green, however, insisted that the President was "sincere" in offering it...
...Douglas MacArthur, he pointed out, "has ordered an end to enslaved labor in Japan, by ordering the repeal of the anti-strike law passed in 1938, sponsored by the Japanese military authorities...
...Resumption of negotiations between General Motors and the UAW was marked by a renewed GM proposal for a 10 per cent, or 13\-2 cents an hour wage increase, which was promptly rejected by the union...
...Murray accused the President of completely ignoring human rights while at the same time "appeasing" industry "with ever greater opportunities for increased profits at the expense of the American people," and added: "The President's plan can be but the first step for ever more savage legislative repression, and for this reason the CIO shall mobilize its entire membership and the American people to defeat this specific measure and all specific attempts directed against labor...
...MEANWHILE, President Truman's cooling-off, fact-finding proposal drew such bitter opposition from labor leaders that news dispatches from Washington referred to a "break" between the CIO and the Truman Administration...
Vol. 9 • December 1945 • No. 50
