Evening star., 1938-10-18
PEACE W|THGA|NS'
IS c. |. 0. DEMAND
Industrial Union Council of
D. C. Also Calls for Votes
for District.

The Washington Industrial Union
Council, spokesman for the Committee
for Industrial Organization unions In
the District, adopted a resolution last
night approving labor peace and unity
so long as the peace agreement retains
and extends the achievements of
industrial organization made under the
leadership Of the c. I. O."
At the same time the council voted
unanimously to ask the c. I. o. con-
stitutionaI convention which meets in
Pittsburgh, Pa, in November, to aid
nationally the cause of District suf-
frage. on the ground that "it is
important for organized labor to for
tify and extend Democracy in our
country" The suffrage resolution
stated:
BE it resolved that the first con-
stitutional convention of the c. I. O..
indorse and support the Democratic
aspirations of the 100000 voteless
American citizens in the District of
Columbia, and urge that Washington,
D. c., be given by an act of Congress
a Democratic form of government
to deal with exclusively local affairs
and that a constitutional amendment
providing for voting representation in
Congress be enacted.
Would Have World Take Note.
BE 1t further resolved, That such
action at the forthcoming Congress
will be unmistakably interpreted by
the people Of the world as a reflection
of Americas intention to strengthen
Democracy against any movement
which may seek to destroy it.
BE it further resolved that affil-
lated c. I. O. bodies throughout the
country urge their Congressman and
Senators to support full suffrage for
the District of Columbia"
The council met for several hours
at the headquarters of the United
Federal Workers Union, Seventeenth
andF streets NV. The meeting was
the regular Monday night session, but
1t was enlivened by talk from John
T. Jones, president of the Maryland
District Industrial Council. of which
the Washington Council is part, and
a United Mine Workers leader from
Cumberland. Md.
There will be peace" between the
C. I. o. and the American Federation
of Labor, Mr. Jones said, but it will
be an honorable peace.
THE results and aims Of the c, I. o.
will be attained no matter what the
attitude of the administration here is,
or OF the Labor Department and Of
any economic royalist. The same
thing isn't going to happen to the
c. I. o. that happened In the four
power pact in Munich.
Would Prevent "Usurpation."
"The c. I, o. is not going to let the
Secretary of Labor or anybody else
usurp the powers of the c. I. o.
Mr. Jones mention of the Secretary
OF Labor was a reference to Miss Per-
kins' recent suggestion that a COM
mittee Of 13 persons heal the breach
between the c. I. o. and the A.
r. Of L.
His independent attitude about the
Democratic administration he en-
phasi1ed by asking that the labor vote
in the coming Maryland election be
given to Gov. Nice, Republican, who
has done more for labor in his four
years as Governor than all the Gov
ernors since the inception Of the
State"
Sydney Katz, secretary Of the Dis
trict-Maryland Industrial Council and
Of the Washington council, was chosen
the Washington councils delegate to
the Pittsburgh convention. Gordon
Cole Of the Washington Newspaper
Guild was unanimously elected finan-
cial secretary of the Washington coun-
Gil, and William Rogers and Ben
Pearse, both of the Newspaper Guild,
were elected to the Washington coun-
cil's Executive Committee.
Indorse Change in Name.
The Washington delegate will carry
to the convention a resolution adopted
unanimously last night after its pres
entation by Katherine Lewis, daugh-
ter and secretary of John L. Lewis
IN his role of president of the United
Mine Workers. The resolution sug-
gests that the name of the c. I. o.
be Confederation of Industrial Or
ganizations after the c. I. O.'s re-
organization at the convention.
In talk to the council on Mexico
Joseph Kovner, assistant counsel of
the c. I. o., who recently returned
from the Pan-American Labor Con-
gress at Mexico City, said that i'm
perialist United States is the real
threat to Mexico"