The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-09-04
Free Labor Must Be Peace Guarantee.
VIM. Green Tells New York Federation
Urge Purchase Of
Union Merchandise
Ornburn Stresses Need o.
Guarding Rights Of
Workingmen

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Strong
emphasis on buying union-made goods
and on the responsibility of organized
workers to protect labor standards
during the defense emergency feat
ured Labor Day address by l. M.
Ornburn, secretary-treasurer of the
Union Label Trades Department,
American Federation of Labor. The
address was delivered over a coast
forecast network of the Mutual Broad
casting System.
Stressing support of union label
products and services, Ornburn said:
"Today, wish that it were possible
for me to visit the home of each or
ganized worker in America. After
gathering together all the members
of his family and their friends,
should like to impress as powerfully
as / am able, upon each and every
one of this little group that his future
welfare is dependent upon buying
union label goods and using union
services. All the benefits that have
been obtained through sixty years of
fighting and sacrifice will be lost if
every member of each family unit
does not buy collectively the things
that are union.
Earn Union, Spend Union
"If could talk to each labor union
list and his wife, 1 would ask this
question: How do you expect to main
tain union-made wages if you do not
buy union-made goods?' Then,
would add, 1T is ridiculous for a
union man to bring union-earned
money home and then have his wife
spend it for unfair products You
can not buy sweatshop products, made
by men and women workers who re-
ceive slave wages, and at the same
time continue to draw union wages
1t does not add up right.
"Union-earned dollars form the
principal support for union conditions
Failure to buy union label goods will
mean loss of jobs by union labor and
it will also mean the loss of American
union labor standards.
Union Buying Important
II know from experience that mem.
bers of labor unions and their friends
can accomplish miraculous results
This great army of labor union-con-
scious consumers can place any union
label product at the top of sales in
it's category. Likewise, it can cause
any unfair product to be a flop on the
market"
Declaring that if labor unions had
not existed in the past, many of the
skilled workers now engaged in de.
fense production would not be avail.
able, Ornburn added:
ut was through the protection OF
their labor unions that these skilled
workers were able to secure their jobi
and thereby obtain the necessary ex'
perience and education so important
where efficient craftsmen are re-
quired. So, it is upon union worker:
that the principal task of building w
the defenses Of our Republic mainly
rests"
| Big Responsibility on Labor
Ornburn pointed out the necessit!
of action to safeguard the jobs OF
workers threatened by defense prior
tiles and continued:
"A great responsibility now rest!
upon organized labor to guard EN-
ployment, working conditions, seniori
ty and other rights of workers fo
the duration Of this emergency.
| "Just as the present world conAic
will be won in the workshop, so will
victory come to the union forces i,
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