The union times., 1941-11-01
To Protect Legal Right!
 ToOrganiize
Some Employers Forget Workers Are Backbone
 Of Defense Program
By AL DESSER (Organizer, American Federation of Labor)

By AL DESSER
 (Organizer, American Federation
 of Labor)
 Living costs are going up. Labor batting by manufacturers assOcia- tiOns and individual employers is going ahead at a great pace. The American labor movement which turns out the men who are willing to sacrifice their lives to defend our great democracy, deplores the attitude of certain employers in the New Haven area who have re- sorted to unAmerican tactics in or der to prevent the organization of their plants.
 LABOR WILL WIN
 In recent weeks the International Association of Machinists, which is powerful union within the A. F. of L. and one of the outstanding trade unions in the world today, has had number of members discharged on one pretense or another because of the unWillingnesS of their employers to recognize their right as American workers: the right to join union of their own choosing.
 It is about time the manufacturers who are fighting unionization of their plants realize that they are fighting an uphill losing battle. It is about time that these manufacturers took the sane, modern industrial point of view and sat down with representa- tives of their workers in order to iron out the differences that exist.
 WORKERS HAVE THEIR RIGHTS
 In this democracy workers have just as much right as manufacturers to band together into a powerful eco- homie organization. We condemn and we feel the nation should con- demn any industrialist or any em- ployer of labor that interferes with that right.
 Unfortunately, we have on the la bor horizon today a self-created mes siah by the name of John L. Lewis, who has used all his dictatorial influ- ence to prevent peace on the Ameri- can labor scene. The difference in the ranks of labor today can be put on the doorsteps of John L. Lewis and his C.I.O. colleagues.
 The raiding tactics indulged in by the New Haven CLIO. represen- tative are certainly not representa- tive of the actions of right think. ing labor leader. The raising of the race issue by the same local CLIO. organizer should be con- demned by every right thinking person in the New Haven area. The A. F. of L. has for years and still is fighting against race dis criminatiOn and we say, as we have always said, that here in the United States of America there is no room for differences of opinion in regard to race. We are all for one, one for all, regardless of race, color or creed.
 SUCCESS IN DRIVE
 The A. F. of L. organization drive is meeting with success in the New Haven area, as well as many other sections of the nation. In spite of tremendous obstacles that are placed in our path by selfish industrialists, the A. F. of L. will carry on as it has in the past in the interest of the work CTS of America. The A. F. of L. vigorously opposes any group or in- dividual that resorts to racketeering, communism, nazism or any tactics that are alien to the American social and economic scene. The American Federation of Labor is in favor of whole-hearted support to Russia and England in their fight to defeat the ruthless spectre of Hitlerism. At the same time we shall continue to do ev- erything m our power to prevent any dictatorial creed from making inroads into our democratic way of living.
 We, of the American Federation of Labor, believe that there is much more to be done for the American worker but we believe that it can best be done in democratic Amer f.