Evening star., 1937-11-04
LABOR CRITICISM
WILL NOT AFFECT
W|NDSOR'S PLANS
Bedaux, Labeled Arch
Enemy of Labor, to Con.
tinue as Tour Arranger.
BALTIMORE A. F. L. UNIT
CALLED TRIP Isl UMMING'
Green Says Action Is Fairly In
dicative of Attitude of U. S.
Workers.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Duke of Windsor will not
change his designation of Charles E.
Bedaux as his representative on his
American tour despite American Fed
Grafton of Labor criticism of Mr.
Bedaux, the latter indicated today.
Mr.. Bedaux said in a statement re-
leased through his press representative
here that he talked with the Duke in
Paris this morning over the telephone
and that England's abdicated King
was looking forward with all the en-
thusiasm of a young man to his visit
to the United States"
Mr. Bedaux's statement was issued
shortly after William Green, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
said he approved the action of the
Baltimore Federation of Labor in
criticizing the Duke for his selection
of Bedaux to arrange the American
itinerary of the Duke and Duchess.
The statement issued by Mr.. Be-
daux's press representative said:
Charles Bedaux talked this morning
on the long-distance telephone with
the Duke, who at the present time is
enjoying the best of health and who is
looking forward with all the enthu-
siasm of young man to his visit to
the United States
Arch Enemy of Labor.
The spokesman for Mr.. Bedaux
would not comment further on the
statement except to say it was issued
because OF the late unpleasantness"
aroused by the Baltimore criticism of
MIR. Bedaux, inventor of an industrial
system which the labor organizations
resolution characterized as the
stretch out
Mr.. Green said he agreed with the
resolution. At the time of it's intro
duction Bedaux was called an arch
enemy of labor"
The resolution warned labor not to
be taken in" by Summing parties
processing to help and to study labor"
Mr.. Green said the warning fairly
represented the attitude of American
labor"
Before it was disclosed that he had
talked with the Duke. Mr.. Bedaux
said the criticism of him was based
on a misunderstanding of the effects
OF his system for measuring human
energy, which he said was used in
more than 1000 factories. He denied
it is the so-calledsf stretch out"
I'VE are working with and for so
many labor unions in many countries.
including this one. that I regret that
the Baltimore Federation has not
given the subject time enough to study
it," he said.
Working With Unions.
I'VE are working with every union
in England. In France the Federation
of Labor has taken an active interest
and is inducing industry to use the
Bedaux system. The federation must
be confusing it with wage incentive
plans in which workers have to stretch
themselves"
In agreeing with the Baltimore fed
GRAFTON, Green said:
What I mean," Mr.. Green said, sis
that labor is opposed to the stretch
out. not the former King"
mo comment" said John L. Lewis,
busy getting ready for the A. F.. of L.
c. l. o. peace conference
In an unanimously passed, resolution
to that effect the group flared at
Bedaux's 'stretch-out" efficiency sys-
tenn, which he has established in some
leading industries; expressed strong
disfavor OF the Dukes friendly visit
with Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Ger
many and asserted the Duchess ex-
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