The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-05-23
Communist Anti-Americm Campaign
Likened To Ndzi TredcherY In NorwdY

Dallas, Textile greatest organ
izing drive ever undertaken in this
territory was launched here with re-
sounding success by President William
Green and thousand other labor
leaders at the Southwestern Labor
Conference.
President Green, in a nationally
broadcast address, declared the Amer
lean Federation of Labor is stronger
today numerically, financially and in
every other way than ever before in
it's history"
He called on industry and the
farmers to join with organized labor
in a national unity program to pro-
mote Americas material welfare and
safeguard American ideals.
He pledged the American Fedora
tion of Labor to do it's utmost to keep
this nation out of the European war.
He warned members of Congress
that the A. F. of l.. will judge whether
they are deserving of reelection on
their votes on the Norton Bill, amend
ing the National Labor Relations Act,
WHICH, IltS CIlG lull cilUOIScIIioHt VI CIic
American Federation of Labor.
Enthusiastic cheers greeted Mr..
Green's denunciation of the policy and
activities of Communists in this coun
try. He pointed out that Norway's
key cities fell victim Of the Nazis be-
cause of treachery and he asked
whether the current anti-American
campaign of the Communist Party did
not fall in the same category.
Secretary Treasurer George Meany,
several members of the Executive
Council, A. f. Of l.. Department heads
and a large number of officers Of ma
tional and international unions also
addressed the delegates who repre-
sented practically every A. F. of l..
organization in five states-Texas,
Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and
Arizona.
The two-day meeting was one of
the most outstanding events in the
history of Dallas. Government Off
cials, business men, religious leaders
and the press all cooperated in max
ing the labor rally go over with a
bang. w. r. Williams, Southeastern
Representative of the A. F. of L., was
in charge of all arrangements and
presided at the meeting.
A constructive and progressive pro-
gram for state legislation was adopted
by the delegates to the conference, in
Guiding increased benefits under state
unemployment compensation systems
and ratification of the Child Labor
amendment.
The two outstanding national legis-
lative measures endorsed by the con-
ference were the Norton Bill and the
amendments to the United States
Housing Authority Act providing. new
appropriations for slum clearance.
President Green predicted the Nor
ton bill will be overwhelmingly adopt
! ed at this session of Congress if Con-
gress is given an opportunity to vote
on it. He said:
"This measure has the full endorse
ment of the American Federation of
Labor because we are confident that
it will cure the present maladminis-
tration of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act without weakening or i'm
pairing the fundamental protective
principles of the act which are so i'm
portant to labor.
"We will welcome the vote of any
member of Congress for the Norton
bill as an act Of friendship toward
labor. We will be forced to regard
the vote Of any member of Congress
against the Norton bill as an un-
friendly act"
Harry C. Bates, president of the
Bricklayers Union, made a strong
plea for support of new appropriations
for slum clearance to provide decent
housing for the underprivileged and
to provide jobs for unemployed build
ing trades workers. He said:
"The USHA program is one of the
means to achieve these objectives. 1t
is not partisan program. 1t bears
no political imprint. 1t is in real
sense labor's own program.
Having done as much as it has to
launch the USHA housing program