The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
unemployment and
Blacklist Is Plan
For LOngShOremen
Government to Register
Dockmen, Outlaw
All Strikes
By SEYMOUR WALDBIAN
Daily Worker Washington Bureau)

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WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. IA
Plan to Decasualize Longshore
abor' is the innocent name OF the
report just proposed by the
tabor Department for incorporation
] to the pending shipping code
IN up by the American Ship
] ers Association.
! ais report, written by Boris Stern
he United States Bureau Of La
Statistics Of the Labor Depart
nent, proposes as one Of its fun
damental planks the complete
registration OF su longshore labor
available" in every American port.
Blacklist Plank
If adopted, the decentralization
plan will not only increase the
effectiveness Of the blacklist against
militant labor, especially the menu
oers Of the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union, but also will be the
spearhead Of the attack against
anti-war activity on the docks.
Decentralization is defined in the
report as primarily a problem in
the technique of employment and
work distribution, vitality affecting
the interests Of employers and
workers alike" and an authorita-
i've and impartial agency with un-
questioned trust and support from
all interests involved" therefore,
says the labor department, should
do 'the actual work Of decasual-
izing the port and OF maintaining a
central employment station for
longshore labor"
Board Of Final Authority
It is proposed that this 'Authorita-
tive and Impartial Agency should be
the product Of the cooperation Of the
strike breaking Rational Recovery
Administration and the Department
Of Labor. The report says:
THE National Recovery Admins
tration shall appoint National De-
casualization Board, consisting of
the administrator Of the shipping
code, the director Of the employment
service of the Department of Labor,
and an advisory board of three en-
ployers selected by the code authority
and three workers approved by the
president OF the international Long
shoremen's Association CA. F. Of L..
This National Decentralization Board
shall be the responsible and final
authority for the decentralization work
in all the ports"
To Register Workers
The expenses of this board are to
be borne by employers and workers
alike, despite the fact that the
hipping companies receive a total of
.28000,O00 a year in gifts C"subsi-
Ties") from the Federal Government
-f,fsls ghost Of the longshoremen
BARELY kubsist,
The general requirements without
which decentralization is either alto
gether impossible or, if attempted, is
doomed to, fail Of its main obiec-
tives7 are:
I'D There must be complete regis
tration of all longshore labor avail
able in the port.
"t2) Only those on the register
should be permitted to work on the
waterfront.
"(3> All employers must give UP
their right to hire 1ongshore labor
individually at their piers or else
where and must agree to secure theil
labor through the decasualizing
agency only
The main points of the proposed
coordination Of 1ongshoremen follow
Immediately upon the approval o.
the plan the employment director
shall proceed with the registration
Of all the workers in the port. Al
the time Of registry each longshore-
man shall be given a permanent port
work number. This port number
shall be the only work number usec
20 designate the particular worker
by ali employers Of longshore labol
IN the port
No Protection for Negroes
The Labor Department refuses t.