The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-27

Federation of Labor to unity and
peace without sacrifice of honor,
standing or identity as demanded by
the CIO, President Green outlined the
Federation's efforts to reestablish the
prevailing rate of wages principle in
the WPA law.
He paused in his remarks to pay
fitting tribute to Thomas j. Donnelly,
secretary-treasurer of the Ohio State
Federation of Labor, describing him
as "great old hero"
Like the Rock of Gibraltar, he has
stood for all that is good and true
and best in the Organized Labor Move
ment of the country" President Green
said in tribute, "and l hope and trust
that Providence will spare him to
serve the Labor Movement in Ohio for
many, many years to come"
Homer Martin, in his address Thurs
day afternoon, bitterly attacked the
dictatorial and dangerous policies of
the CIO leaders, and declared them to
be dominated by the communist party.
He told the convention that he ap-
peared before them "humbly", and
confessed that there were a lot of
things he thought he knew which he
found through sad experience that he
did not know.
"You may say that l am bitter"
Martin said, "but | remember the
words Of John l.. Lewis, and l shall
repeat them with different meaning:
| We were seduced with fair words; and
since we have been seduced, we are
enraged.'"
He declared that the membership.
contractual and autonomy claims of
the CIO were nothing more than prop
aganda, and that the CIO could bet
ter be described, not as the Congress
Of Industrial Organizations, but as
| Communist International Order"
The convention was addressed dur
ing the week by officers of various
international Unions; Mollie Ray Car
roll, Division Of Labor Standards, U.
S. Department Of Labor; l. M. Orn-
burn, secretary Of the AF'L Union La
bel Trades Department.; Ohio Indus
trial Relations Director George A.
Strain; Industrial Commissioner Will
| r. Blake; w. T. Roberts, BUG Board
of Review; James A. Wilson, Inter-
national Labor Office, and others.
Sixty-four resolutions were pre-
sented and acted upon by the conven-
ton, embracing every imaginable sub
| ject of interest to labor.
Four resolutions relative to third
term in the White House for Presi-
dent Roosevelt were combined into a
substitute resolution which termed the
President "the greatest humanitarian
President in the White House during
our time" and requested him to seek
a third term.
A resolution placing the convention
on record in support of the "Bigelow
Pension Plan" of $50 per month pen
sions for needy aged was adopted
after the delegates had earlier given
Herbert S. Bigelow, Cincinnati preach
er and former Congressman an ov-
alton when he addressed the conven-
ton on the proposal and other amend
ments to the constitution which he is
sponsoring.
Several resolutions urging unity in
the organized labor movement were
combined in a substitute resolution
adopted by the convention, in which
officers of the American Federation
of Labor were urged to continue their
efforts to effect "an honorable peace"
| Pncnl,rtin hn f,1cu,ipcr c.,,h
jects were also adopted by the conven-
ton delegates on the recommendation
of committees to which they were as
signed:
Adequate appropriation by Con-
gress for continuance of PWA.
Supporting the passage of bills be-
fore Congress extending the USHA
and increasing appropriations for that
Authority.
Urging enactment of an emergency
amendment to the WPA law to re-
establish the prevailing rate of wages
principle.
Reafhrming support of legislation
establishing standards of apprentice
training in the state.
Urging enactment of Teachers
Tenure Law
Eight hour day for state institu-
tional employees.
Passage of the Administration
Wagner Health Bill"
Constitutional amendment providing
for 55 per cent vote on public con-
struction bond issues.
Several resolutions urging patron
age of the Union Label.
Empowering the Executive Board
to appoint assistants to Legislative
Agent Thomas j. Donnelly.
Employment of Union moving pic
ture operators in state departments
engaged in production and distribution
of motion pictures.
Condemning misuse of the monopoly
law by the judiciary.
Urging recall of anti-labor judges.
Endorsing the use of Union-made
stamped envelopes.
Urging exclusion of 3.2 beer from