The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-28
New Labor Head Must Buck
Lewis Mine Union. Says
A. F. of L. Chief
NO COMMUNICATION
AL Committee To Contact
Murray At Close Of
Convention
BY James M. Duffy, f. L. Wheatley,
John D. McGillivray and Dales w.

John ID. McGllllVray and DaleS w.
Allison.
New Orleans, Lathe situation on
the labor front can be changed only
if Philip Murray, new president of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations,
has free hand in peace negotia-
tions, William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, said
here Friday.
If John l.. Lewis, whom Murray
succeeded Friday, would resign as
president of the United Mine Workers,
powerful G. |. o. group, "then the op-
portunity for negotiating a peace
would be exceedingly advanced" Green
declared.
Green has not and will not COM
municate with Murray, he said.
"Our committee in all probability
will communicate with him as soon as
said. eff Murray was free man, had
a free hand, and was free to act,
believe we could get somewhere"
Labor leaders in the A. F. Of L..
convention here have steadily main
tanned that election of Murray, who is
president of the mine workers, to
C. l. o. leadership, would not close
the breach between the two labor
groups. They predicted that Lewis
would continue to control the C. |. O..
through the powerful mine workers
union and through friendship with
Murray.
Dan J. Tobin, president of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Teamsters,
Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Help
ers and member Of the A. F. of L..
peace committee, said of Murray's cleo
ton:
Murray is a splendid fellow and
| have the highest regard for him.
But l believe he will carry out the
policy of the G.. |. 0. convention, which
is to rejoin the A. F. of L. only if all
C. |. o. unions are admitted as they
are constituted today-a procedure
that is impossible under the A. F. Of
l.. constitution"
Declaration of Peace
President Green, asked what his re-
action would be to a proposal that A.
F. of l.. officials step down in order
to promote peace negotiations, de-
clared, "No reason can be advanced in
support of that argument so far as the
A. F. of L. is concerned. We have
made our declaration of peace; Lewis
has not"
Lewis resigned the C. |. O. pres
idency at his organizations conven-
tion in Atlantic City, N. j., after he
had promised in the presidential cam
paign that he would resign if Presi-
dent Roosevelt was returned to the
White House for the third term.
On another front-the refusal Of
the American Federation of Labor to
concur in the appointment of Miss
Frances Perkins as United States Sec
retary Of labor-peace prospects also
seemed remote, but relations with the
labor department were termed better.
Green, addressing the convention
briefly at the conclusion of an address
by Daniel Tracy, second assistant to
Secretary Perkins, said, at is quite
appropriate for me to say at long
last the American Federation of La
Dor feels it has fine entree into the
the department of labor. We can talk
to Dan Tracy man to man. He speaks
our language, and we speak his. We
are happy beyond measure because of
the A. F. of L. influence introduced
into the department of labor in Dan
Tracy's appointment"
Sir Walter Citrine, who arrived in
New Orleans Thursday after a secret
voyage from England, was presented
to the convention by President Green.
The English labor envoy's appearance
brought prolonged cheers from the
convention.
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