The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-08-13
CONVENTION
ADDRESSES.
SATURDAY.

important task is to make our voice:
heard in Washington for the imme-
date opening of second front ir
Europe" Leonard o. Lageman, coun-
Gil secretary, said Saturday in his
convention report.
"This We must do in our own
national interest to make possible the
speedy and victorious ending of the
war for the freedom-loving people of
the world" Lageman declared.
"Since the signing of the U. S.
Soviet British pact, the opening of the
second front is the established policy
of our government. 1t is our job now
to guarantee the execution of our
governmental policy through decisive
action an about offensive in
Europe from the west"
Declaring that this was not
a job of military experts alone,
he said ga policy of such vital
consequences can only be in
stituted If the administration
has the assurance that the
people are giving it unquali-
fed support"
This is the reason, he said, that
unions should Immediately flood
Washington with requests for a second
front.
In the coming elections, he said, we
must elect "men and women who will
pledge themselves to support the adj
war program COM
pletely."
He condemned members of congress
who gave only slip service" to the
President, and then definitely OBJ
structed" the administrations war
program.
He called the present efforts of dis
trict so of the United Mine Workers
of America to organize dairy farmers
" descriptive"
"John L. Lewis" he said, "repre-
sents in the CIO those forces which
are attempting to disrupt and hinder
the war effort" The issue between
Lewis and Phillip Murray, he said,
"is an issue between those who sup
port the war effort and those who are
attempting to disrupt it."
Lewis and his "henchmen" were
singled out from the United Mine
Workers union as whole as
"appeasers."
HE said that Negroes are not yet
accepted as production workers" at
the ordnance plant at New Brighton,
near Minneapolis.
He outlined broad program for
Minnesota's basic industries
Reporting on the growth of the
State Industrial Union Council, he
said, that there were now nearly 100
affiliated unions, representing an in
crease of 60 per cent in the past II
since the last convention.
He declared that Attorney General
Biddle's ruling in the Harry Bridges
case "cannot go unchallenged."
(Biddle ordered Bridges deportation
to his native Australia, but the labor
leader appealed directly to the Pres
ident)
Enlargement of the social securities
will be one postwar prob
lem that will be tackled by congress,
Lloyd Garrison, st. Louis, labor in
formation representative of the social
security board, told the convention.
Information concerning contingent
cies that must be met is now being
compiled, Garrison said.
Workers in production lines should
see that they keep physically fit and
avoid accidents through carelessness,
he said.
"It would be quite an indictment
against a worker" he said, "who
through illness or injury slowed down
production so that group Of soldiers
on the front line would be deprived
of war materials and thereby wiped
out" Multiplied many times, this
might mean a turning point in the
war, he emphasized.
Eleanor Fowler, Washington, CLIO
auxiliary secretary, outlined activities
of her organization.
"We should pledge ourselves to the
election of a win-the-war congress, /"
she declared and emphasized that the
mobilization of the women's vote, "
would help accomplish this.
FRIDAY.
LaIbor's plan for the 1940's was
outlined to the CLIO members of Min
nesota in convention Friday after
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