Evening star., 1938-10-06
GREEN PLEA SEATS
|. 7. j. DELEGATES
A. F. L. Gives Printers Six
Months to Pay Levy for
Fight Against c. /. O..
p, the Associated Press.

HOUSTON, Oct. 6.-The American
Federation of Labor's annual conven-
ton, acceding to plea by Presi-
dent william Green not to throw out
one Of she oldest afhliates OF the A.
F. of L., voted unanimously today to
seat the delegates Of the international
Typographical Union.
The action served to keep the I. T.
U. and its 10000 members in the
Federation ranks on probation for
another six months until the print
ers' union decides by referendum
whether to pay special assessment
levied by the A. F. of L. a year ago
to combat c. I. O.'s industrial union
drive.
In a plea to the convention to seat
the delegates, Mr.. Green said:
We are not so foolish in these
days when dual secession movement
is facing us, as to drive the Interna-
tional Typographical Union out Of
the A. F. Of Z.
Those who are against us would
be more than pleased if We said to
the Typographical Union You can
not sit with u.s. ,"
Hopes for Reversal.
The Federation leader said the newly
elected officers of the l. T. u. includ-
ing its president, Claude G. Baker,
were hopeful the I. T. U. membership,
in the next six months, would over
throw two previous decisions not to
pay the special assessment of / cent
per member per month. ~'
eff the unexpected happens" Mr..
Green said, then the Typographical
Union is definitely out of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor until the in
debtedness is paid"
Mr.. Baker also pleaded with the
convention to retain the union until
the membership has a chance to act
by referendum.
Daniel Tobin, president of the
Teamsters' Union, said that if the
printers delegation was seated at
must be understood that the door is
not open to other organiza tons to dc
likewise"
Johr L. Lewis formal call for c. l.
O.'s first constitutional convention was
interpreted generally in high American
Federation of Labor sources today as
exploding all immediate hopes for an
end to the A. F. of L.-C I. o. war.
The c. /. 0. chairman's announce
ment that his new industrial union
movement would seek to establish itself
as a permanent organization at a
meeting in Pittsburgh November IA
came soon after President Roosevelt, in
a message to the A. F. of L. annual
convention here, had appealed for
labor peace
William Green. Federation president,
indicated he considered Mr. Lewis ac-
tion as rebuff to the Presidents first
publicly voiced hope that organized
labor leaders would make and keep the
peace to save the workers from the re-
action that might follow continued
strife.
One official of the Federation, who
declined to be named, said he did not
expect the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, headed by David
Dubinsky of New York, to respond to
the c. I. o. convention call. The I. l..
G. w. U. recently attempted to sound
out both sides on the possibility of re-
suming unity conferences.
Sources close to the A. F.. of L..
leadership said permanent organiza-
ton of the c. l. o. would be decisive
step of far-reaching importance to
labor.
A. F. L. to Stand Pat.
The Presidents appeal to organized
labor for peace failed to bring conces-
sions from either side.
Mr. Green declared the A. F.. of L..
would stand pat on the tentative peace
formula of last December until the C.
I. 0. capitulated to its demands.
Mr. Green's latest blast at the c. I.
o. came yesterday, when he demanded
that the Canadian Trades and Labor
Congress purge" itself of C. 1. O. af-
filiates in the Dominion. The fedora
ton, he said later, would withdraw
from the Canadian organization un-
less it expelled such Lewis unions as
the United Mine Workers, the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers and the
United Automobile Workers.