Evening star., 1942-03-27
n. A. N. Head Urges
Ban on New Pacts
For Closed Shop
Would Allow Existing
Agreements to Stond;
Uncertain on 40-Hour Law
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$4,000 planes requested by the PreSi-
dent will have been reached
Censorship" he declared, will
not permit much in the way of fig
ureS but let me start with steel.
Last week the steel industry op-
Grated at SO per cent capacity, by
the end of 1912 it will be producing
at the rate of $4,000 900 tons of steel
a year"
He reported that production in
the tool industry would reach
81 $50, 100000 this year-flve times
that of 1939-and that the automo-
bile industry now has $500 900 900
in war orders. about three times the
annual value OF their peacetime
production.
He argued that industry as
whole has not been making excess
sive or exorbitant profits from de-
tense or war contracts
Its own investigation of profits
on Navy contracts. he said, showed
an average of 79 per cent on more
than 10000 completed and uncom-
pleted profits.
Aluminium Showdown Revealed.
Before the House nearing began
the War Labor Board had disclosed
that a slowdCwn has retarded pro-
duction at the Aluminium Co. of
America plant al Cleveland. A hear
ing today was called to settle a dis
pute between the company and c.
!. o. unions.
A special representative of the
board found that four union
stewards instipated the showdown
after the company reduced the num-
Der OF men on some operations. He
recommended that the stewards be
fired.
The Die Casters Union asserted
in statement that the company
precipitated this production slow
down through their instituting of
new work procedures without first
consulting the union" but added
that ANY man guilty of such a stop
page must CO.
liam f. Baldwin, ordered immediate
negotiations between the company
and the union on grievances at the
Cleveland plant. The hearings to-
day, to settle major issues of wages
and hours for nine plants of the
company, had been set before the
investigation.
1--WE are supporting the boards
decision because we are interested
in production the union said. For
the same reason, We hope that the
Aluminium Co. of America will soon
learn that cooperation with the
union of its employees is essential if
production is to be attained, and II
this war is to be Won"
William Green, A. F. L. president.
and Philip Murray. president of the
C. I. O., hit slowdowns yesterday in
testimony before the House Naval
Committee.
Won't Stop Any Workers.
Asked by Representative Drewry,
Democrat, Of Virginia, whether he
believed workers should be COM
n
gaining employment in war pro-
duction plant, Mr.. Murray explained
that my organization isn't stop
ping any one from working in this
emergency"
The c. I. o. leader told the COM
mittee that under the National
Labor Relations Act a union could
ho ryiv Hor iy,ir ipt,
for employees of a plant.
so the union goes to the en-
ployers and says Will you see that
all workers in this plant pay their
part of the cost?' and the employers
agree" he testified. This procedure
makes for union security"
After Mr.. Murray and Mr.. Green
had appeared, Chairman Vinson of
the Naval Committee said that both
the A. F. L. and the C. I. o. were en-
titled to public thanks for yielding
their fight to strike and for relin-
gushing double time pay for Sunday
and holiday work.
On the House floor, Representa-
tive Smith, Democrat, of Virginia,
author Of the bill to which Mr..
Green and Mr.. Murray objected.
criticized the Senate for failure to
act on pending anti-strike legisla-
tion.
1T appears that the Senate pro-
poses to investigate the causes Of
the tremendous up-surge of public
sentiment against the continuation
of union labor abuses" Mr. Smith
said.
Senator Pepper, Democrat, of
Florida, advocated establishment of
a board to fix working hours, wages.
salaries. profits, prices and bonuses
and asked that all legal restrictions
on the hours of labor be abolished