Labor Messenger (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, June 28, 1946 Page: 1 of 4
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rogram but is needed by growing workers in the furniture, wood
troversies that they did during the Robert E. Lucey, archbishop of the
“Changing conditions of today
happiness.
Minimum W age Laws
endowed by their
"Men
&
Texas State Federation of Labor Now Congress Junks Case Plan;
Holding Successful Meeting In Houston Moves To Revive Hobbs Bill
Food T<» Be Searce
For ( hir Year More
Senate Judiciary Committee OK’s
Curb On Racket Activities
federation has ever held, Mr. Myer,
warned that decisions made this
at the second day meeting of the
Texas State Federation of Labor’s I
forty-seventh annual convention at ।
Standard Time, July 6 and con-
tinuing each Saturday for twenty-
six consecutive weeks through the
Colvin Asks
Cooperation
Howard T. Colvin, associate di-
This was the mesage given to
the Texas State Federation of La-
bor Convention by Arnold S. Zan-
Jobless Pea k Is Passed As
Employmex t Steadily Gains
the Rice hotel.
Other Speakers
Washington, D. C.—Though the
United States had long been noted
as a lumber exporter, It has become
Googe Denounces
Dual Movement
George L. Googe, ehairman of
the American Federation of Lab-
or’s Southern policy board, de-
nounced the dual labor movement
as a device for Communistic con-
call for a new emphasis on collec-
tive bargaining and th experience
of mutual trust and responsibility
which is the basis of all successful
private enterprise,” he said.
stifling laws by Congress can be
expected unless the decisions are
right.
Former Houstonian
that amount monthly through the
remainder of 1946.
and County Judge Glenn Perry de-
livered addresses of welcome.
Declaring that this is the most
“There are two camps in Texas
today. They are the camp of capi-
tal and the camp of labor.
"In labor's camp are two great
competing and hostile organiza-
President Truman Vetoes
The Vicious Case Bill
Chief Executive Again Urges Exhaustive
Inquiry Into Causes Of Nation-Wide Disputes
Strike Threal Se
InOPA' Revisi
Speaker Cites
Capitalism In
Scandinavia
"We also have in the A. F. of
L, too many jurisdictional dis-
putes.
Hostile Laws Cited
"Laws are being fostered that
are hostile to organised labor.
"Let us not emulate Nero, who
was reported to have fiddled while
Rome burnd. The situation today
mately 2,600,000 n three montha ' the sit aation looks good from to improve minimum wage stand-
this spring.
istered during the morning, George
ents of grain A. Wilson, secretary of the Hous-
This UIu program covers 11,000 ards, call up confliet which the
। public may misunderstand.
of anyone to organize, and to bar-
। gain collectively for their just
rights."
8. Zander, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employes, and Wil-
ber Keith, informational service
representative on the social secur-
ity board.
I ministered by the social security
department of the UIU, makes pub-
lic periodic financial statements of
its operation.
secession group there were nine wide.
He said the C. I. O. is engaged unions represented,” Mr Googe "M.., -u.„U. -----
Mid. "Five have found their error I Creator with certain inallenable a lumber importing nation, the Na-
in street names i> M
mg. connecting the UE
elena and Bremond.
k Drive in Garden co
me nt Service, an neo iced. discharged from the armed services
Despite the str* • there have d ring th ome months, Mr Goodwin
Tracy Cautions
AFLTo Resist
Leftist Course
nd improvementa to and expansion
including the Coliseum.
4
NAM is Accused
Of School Drive
Chicago.—Charges that the Na-
tional Association of Manufactur-
ers is making “the most brazen at-
tempt in its history to control the
public schools for its own selfish
ends and as a major avenue of
anti-labor propaganda,” were made
by Irvin R. Kuenzli, national secre-
tary of the American Federation of
Teachers (AFL).
Addressing the national conven-
tion of the Women’s Auxiliary of
the Street Car and Motor Bus Un-
ion (AFL), Kuenzli declared:
“For several years the NAM has
been developing a cooperative pro-
gram with non-union teachers’ or-
ganisations and — now that the
fighting phase of the war is over—
is using its infiltration into Ameri-
can education as a means of pro-
moting its own highly organized
propaganda program.”
I
is Hospital, traffic sig
ildings, motor repair a
Washington, D. C. — President
Truman vetoed the obnoxious Case
' bill, telling Congress bluntly that
it would not stop atrikes, but. pro-
mote increased industrial strife. 1
Labor USA Program
To Resume July 6
Washington, D. C.-Its weekly
radio feature, ‘The American Fed-
eration i st of the Air,” will be re-
sumed by the AFL on the Labor-
USA program carried by the
i American Broadcasting Company,
beginning at 4:45 p. m., Central
H.98Made
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“In the determination of the
question of whether or not the
great majority of our citizens will
be benefited by this bill, the ques-
tion presented is whether it will
help to stop strikes and work stop-
pages and prevent other practices
which adversely affect our eco-
nomy.
“I have reached the conclusion
(Continued on Page 3)
AFL President William Green
immediately hailed the President's
message as bearing out the conten-
j tions made by organized labor
against the bill.
Congress promptly sustained the
The future of organized labor— j The Scandinavian countries,
whether it shall be free or shackled : hanging under the shadow of Rus-
by law—rests in the hands of I sia, are making capitalism work.
er
Au
Sew all Myer
Warns Against
Disputes
Jurisdictional disputes and the
aggressive organization campaigns
of the C. I. O. are the two greatest
menaces which the State Federa-
tion of Labor, A. F. of L., has to
face, Sewall Myer, attorney for the
state body, told delegates for the
creased wages has come as a direct
ton S. Quin, D.D., Episcopal bishop result of rising costs of living,” Mr.
of Texas, and Mayor Otis Massey Tracy said. “With the costs of liv-
ate-House
causes of
formulate
after an
study.
the Administration’s price-control nan, president of the Houston La-
1 rogram may change their predic- bor and Trades Council, and vice-
tions They said that, should the president of the ninth district for
s be lifted from food prod- the state body. He is also chair-
.me commodities may become man ot the convention committee.
Welcome Extended
Following recital of the pledge
of allegiance to the flag, the invo-
cation was given by Rt. Rev. Ciin-
failure of the labor movement in
Texas.
ala era’ Tuternational Union social se- "We are faced with a constant
on . arity procram, Sal B. Hoffmann, barrage of anti-labor propaganda,"
n president of the organization, an- he declared, "and that, plus our
struggle for better living stand-
iuh in the first 10 days of estimated. Visitors and alternates,
These shipments nearly trip- together with delegates’ wives and
. amount shipped in May, families, pushed the number here
eultural experts, in estimat- for the convention to over 1000,
* amount of food to reach officials estimated.
important convention the state j
The contemplated mproveme i ta by the city, added to those of death benefit, payment of hospital
other public agencies and private enterprise, should make and doctor bills, 60 per cent of their!
Houston one of tt» nation s most prosperous cities for years averggegtotaleamningsduingsdis-
* ability periods and an additional
to come, as well 4 one of th- world 8 most livable cities A benefit for dismemberment and ac-
vote for the bor la is a vote for health, prosperity and cidental death This program. ad-
Off null Newspaper of Houston Labor ar\
Oftii ial Rep • sentativeofthe A
Thanks For Coming To See I
And Co me Again Right Soon
comment by AFL leaders and
n_-1 guests. These comments cover mat-
Other peakers included Arnold ters of national and international
interest.
Consult your local newspapers on
the exact time of the broadcasts in
your community and tune in if you
want to keep up on what is going
on in the world of labor. The pro-
gram is listed as “Labor-USA."
The A. F. of L. has set up the try.”
(Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 3)
end of the year.
When thia novelty was inaugu-
rated last year it proved so popu-
lar with members of the AFL and
the public generally, the same for-
mat will be retained in the new
series.
The program is presented in the
form of a “magazine of the air”
and intersperses news reports with
Cbuncil^hd Affiliated Organizations
of Labor in Houston
Courtesy of Houston Chronicle.
Opening scene as the forty-eighth convention of the Texas State Federation of Labor gets under way
at the Rice Hotel Monday in the top picture, left to right, are Rt. Rev. Clinton S. Quin, County Judge
Glenn Perry, Mayor Otis Massey, A. S. MeBride, president of the state federation, and B. F. McClellan,
master of ceremonies for the opening session. Mr. McClellan turned the meeting over to Mr. McBride
just before the noon adjournment. >
f .. ,,ards were taken in order. in Cali- defonse,"he said.
By early May 11 400.000 male fornia, Massachusetts, Oregon, of the "eivi war that wages con-
-a.- had be;n digcharged, the New York, New Jersey and Perm- stantly over jurisdictional differ-
(Continued on Page 3) sylvania, the survey showed. (Continued on Page 3)
Instead, the President urged
Congress to authorize a joint Sen-
Amendments adopted by the
House seek to assure that the Hobbs
Bill will not be used as a club
against a union which is engaging
in peaceful picketing and other
legitimate and lawful practices.
The President’s strike control
bill, meanwhile, encountered delay-
ing tactics in the House Rules Com-
mittee to which it was referred
after the Senate passed it with
major amendments.
With labor peace once more re-
stored to the nation and no major
strikes in progress, no urgency was
seen for rush action on this meas-
ure. In fact, even some of the anti-
labor group in the House began
raising objections to the bill be-
cause they felt it would place too
great power in the hands of the
President.
However, the Rules Committee is
expected in the next week or ten
days to report out a recommenda-
tion that the bill be sent to confer-
ence in an effort to iron out differ-
ences in the legislation as adopted
by the House and Senate.
In an address over the CBS radio
(Continued on Page 2)
and returned and each of the re rights and consequently the idea of tional Housing Agency reports.
---------- maining four has kicked out its man’s dignity must be defended Lumber of all types now is being
“A vigorous offense is the best leadership and substituted leaders everywhere. Man cannot be debas- imported at the rate of 100 million
of the Communistic party in Amer ed in one country without that de- board feet monthly, and export
ica." basement influencing another coth- commitments call for less than half
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it --g-- forty-eighth annual convention.
Little change whieh opened at the Rice Hotel
library improveme its, T
fire stations and a arms,
street repair wareh ouses
of the exposition ground
Not one item of that
Washington, D. C.—The Case
Bill has been abandoned by its
sponsors for this session of Con-
gress, at least.
Conferences of anti-labor forces
in the House and Senate failed to
, develop any new strategy for re-
viving the vetoed bill by attaching
it as a rider to some other legis-
j lotion.
A suggestion that a Case Bill
. rider be affixed to President Tru-
I man's emergency strike control bill,
now being considered by the House
Rules Comrittee, was rejected as
doomed to defeat.
However, a new drive t enact at
least one section of the Case Bill
was inaugurated when the Senate
Judiciary Committee reported out
the Hobbs Bill. This measure had
been pigeon-holed in the committee
since last December, when it was
passed by the House.
The Hobbs I II seeks to make ac-
tivities of labor unions subject to
prosecution under the Federal
Anti-racketeering Act when a union
is not lawfully carrying out its
legitimate objectives.
Text Of Veto
Message
Washington, D. C.—The text
of President Truman's message
to Congress explaining why he
vetoed the Case Bill follows:
I am returning herewith, with-
out my approval, H.R. 498, entitled
“An Act to Provide Additional Fa-
cilities for the Mediation of Labor
Disputes, and for Other Purposes.”
The outstanding domestic prob-
lem confronting this country today
is the maintenance and increase of
production. We must have produc-
tion, or the effects of ruinous in-
flation will be felt by every one of
our citizens. Strikes and lockouts
are the greatest handicaps to at-
taining vital production.
Inasmuch as the solution of our
present-day labor problems consti-
tutes the key to production, this
present bill must be judged in the
light of whether it will assist in re-
ducing labor strife in the nation.
I have given careful study to the
bill. I have not considered it from
the standpoint of whether it favors
or harms labor, or whether it fav-
ors or harms management I have
considered it from the standpoint
of whether or not it benefits the
public, which includes both man-
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investigation into the
labor disputes and to
remedial legislation
exhaustive six-months
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food markets in Stockholm and
over half of them are co-operative-
ly owned.
Mr. Tracy is a former Honsto- Regulation Unnecessary
nian, who headed the International! The need governmental ng-
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ulation of prices and business con- Vet. , a a ........
before he was annointed assistant ditions, such as the O. P. A, are 1135 to uphold and 255 to override,
secretary of labor in 1941. He re not feltin Sweden, Mr. Zander less than the two-thirds required
signed early this year to accept the said. Whenever prices start ris- to enact a low over the Prerident 8
position on the international tabor ing. out of proportion to the worth veto
organization. of the product, the people organize Thus the Case Bill is a dead
“The ■ general demand for in-
beemashe sala, ----------..... the
cen. ...............Jiri:' snmdm .......ening
ports, Mr. Goodwis aid, estimatee that with on I about1500,000 voter adopted in Nevada, South Dakota, in an active organizing drive while
the employment o' Vorid War n am ret min monthly to civilian New York, and Rhode Island were the A F of L shows a condition
Veteran, had Inc r a edbyapproxi '■ there is every reason to be- praised by the department. Efforts 7 hareg
-tal. o ano no. - ...... . be .it -ton Jook. -ad f-om : :____"_______ . . ‘ TomTg-:
Houston, and need d right now The city has already suffered products, bedding, casket and can-
from the lack of hese improvements. The longer they arelvas industries. and funds are fur-
delaved the more the city will be retarded. ' nished entirely b! m1,^nr with
And, not the smallest consideration, the voting of these total unionised payroll and also pro-
issues will furnise thousands of jobs for skilled craftsmen. vides covered members with siooo tions trying to defeat one another.
d-famine areas reached a ton Labor and Trades
uniona today, Dan W. Tracy, Amer-
ican delegate to the international
labor organisation, told the Texas der, international' president of the
State Federation of Labor, in con-1 American Federation of State
vention at the Rice Hotel, Monday. I County and Mumicpal Employees,
“Labor is at the cross roads,” I Tuesday. . ..
----,. Mr. Tracy said. “The road to the .. "There is , a selr-discipline in
Close to 400 delegates had reg- right leads to peace and prosperity their, capitalism, Mr. Zander
and the road to the left to retarda- stated. ,
tion and restriction." I When individual enterprises
Urging labor to weigh its prob-■ prove themselves unethical, or un-
lems cautiously and choose the fair, publie co-operatives are or-
right road, Mr. Tracy warned that I ganized to compete with them. Mr
---- Zander said. There are 1000 large
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Voume 22—Num er 14
Man’s Dignity Key
must cooperate in peace as they did nn g ia g *
during the war years I O Labor 8 I lit 11 TO,
Without Turmoil A 1 i ■ • i m
“There wil be disputes and mis- Arch bishop bays
understandings, but if tabor and When man h debased anywhere
management show the same zeal. if . . ,
they will put forth the same effort in the world, organised labor has
to minimize and adjust these con-! suffered a defeat, the Most Rev.
podge of ill-considered and unre- !
la ted provisions hurriedly wrapped
together into an unwieldly and un- |
workable legislative package. |
His main argument was summed
up as follows: ’ ]
“We tend to dismiss as none of.
- _____ — ---------, —_______ ___________our business the struggle of man
meet the active organization of trol over an important segment of in foreign conn tri es for eocial jon-
population. Mee,” Archbishop Lucey said, "but U. S. NOW IMPORTS LUMBER
“When the C. I. O. formed as a the interests of labor are world-'
war, most of them can and will be San Antonio Catholic diocese, said
rattler tfn througnftrireonnatbezhere Tuenday. v k
moil,” Mr. Colvin mid. The archbishop .poke on the re
“Changing condition, of today lationship of the church and labor
facing, labor is an invit-
ing subject for conflagration.
| “Let us forget jurisdictional dis
putes and wars of the rival union,
Washington, D < -The rakof '■ the 800000 were Hsted as Needed in Many States and work for organized labor in
tion has been pasea. " ihin All ulemployed imeluding veterans, mWashingtonuDCmStatesmini- Two specific suggestions for
nin ™ nE t ,. wlti -nev. I m1, non mum wage action 1. imperative for meeting the menace were laid
point on condit on •M ’ V ' n0 thousands of women worker, who down b- MP Mver
steadily, Robert C. oodwin diree- In both April and May.more vet-will find their postwar employment Adopt defiX policie. rorem-
tor of the United t ate Employ erana ---- put in 3oba than were in laundries, hotels and other serv- ing terion of tae atate
ice industries not covered by mini- -
Laboui
higa # ■
I of the product, the people organize
a co-operative enterprise to com- duck, for the time being at least,
bat it and bring prices back to j It was not expected that Congress
their proper level. again would attempt to pass anti-
“We had better get busy about labor legislation without first con-
ing out of control, labor will have setting up some kind of discipline ducting ‘be inquiry urged by the
to continue to ask for more wages of our own if we wish to eliminate President,
until there is a satisfactory bal- the necessity for governmental
- control and regulation,’ Mr. Zan-, and temperate, the President made
j der concluded.” The American peo- it clear in his veto message that he
plc must be educated, so there is considered the Case Bill a hodge-
Before the new Ir arkers are
eliminate the confv • ion in str
Houstonians have t ouble findi
the streets are mar ed. Th us
good example. Oak Place is <
intersections of H: ley and Ba
Oak Court is in o ak Place A
rican tables for the next 12 The convention was called to
tha, warned that the fate of order at 10 a.m. by B F. McClen-
dj*gce • ‘ „
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No, $55,225,000 Ain’t Hay, Broth.
But Hay Won’ Build A t ity
Every citizen of Houston should supvort the $55;
bond program on July 27. Every cent of that and t
needed to put Hou ton in condition. Even before the w
city was slipping in regard to improvements and »
During the war, it .lipped still faster
Houston has grow n so fast that it has nev er cnught i
its population increase. Its streets and other fneilitie
lagged way behind and so have the services rendered
municipality.
The $55,225,000 from the proposed bond imsues, ad
the $21,000,000 in bonds on hand for improvementa. w
the city more than 576,000,000 with which to provide i
zens with badly nee Jed improvements. Even that will
enough to give H< iston the facilities it ought to ha
would take upward- of another $100,000,000 to do tha
this present bond ogram would go a long ways tew
goal.
Some of the bond issues, such as those for expresuwa
flood control, are ot viously inadequate to complete thos
But the flood contr l and expressways bond issues are <
to carry the work through the next few years, added to
received from the ate and federal gov ernments The
the projects will I. financed later, when the need am
more money.
One of the small- st bond issues in the program is ti
$100,000 for the I irpose of installing name markers
city streets. That one of the minor issues, but it she
one of the most po, ular.
Villas. There is a Oak !Street in Bellaire, ant 4 he r in Lowell
& ScVst^ naniogon ” n ’ Xk .T(S 1 pholsterers Pay
mont, and Oakridy , besides Live Oak, Live Oak North, Live $250,000 Aid I o
Oak Alley and Liv- Oak Court Such t I • %J „.y
virtually impossib for a stras 1 . r t t; an Oak add V - v-el" rs
The bond program includes bond issnes for storm sewers, Philadelphia.—More than a qua r-
streensrarker, S ttar vner" irpor" impnovement and Xt, andTdsath bsnefito have teen vesk may decide the success
bituminous pavin right of way. flood control, incinerators, Pers operation of theUpholstr-
id rest so much many persons
as basis, the
rican family will eat
more" than before
ti law in the next 12
mid wil be able to
Only 930,000 ve raw he em-
phasized, were lie d as "unem-
ployed and seekir employment"
Hundreds of dele gates and vi
tion of the Texas Si ate Federal
a bright spot in the rear 1946. 1
of the Lone Star State with ami!
to be gained by a visit to the Ba
We have had a wohderful time
we hope they had as much fun la
to have them with us and we he
they come again. It was the see
held in Houston an here were t
is entirely too long
Of course, it was ot all entert
ings of the convent j n were frail
was done. Grave p oblems fact
they were discussetl fully durin
the accomplishmer t of the conv
expense and effort
We feel that the convention wi
in the history of the organizatior
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