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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08
Ask Dismissal
Pay Clause In
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Philadelphia, Nov. 6-To meet the
threat Of mass unemployment after
the war. the CIO Convention this
week urged that a provision for
dismissal wages be included in war
contracts.
The various procurement agen-
cies Of the federal government were
called upon to protect workers by
requiring dismissal pay for those
who are:
1. Laid off at the end of the war.
2. Dismissed through the applica-
ton Of seniority rights of workers
returning from the armed services.
3. Thrown out of work by pro-
duction cut-backs.
The resolution also recommended
that CLIO unions attempt to get
protective clauses calling for dis
missal wages in all contracts signed
with companies.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08

paign, CWA will set out during the
coming year to prove to all
auxiliary members that "in the
election Of candidates for public Of
fee we are deciding such vital
problems as the provision of nurs-
cries and school lunches for our
children. whether we shall or shall
not have an effective subsidy and
price control program. how much
money our husbands are going to
bring home in their pay envelopes.
how much Of their meager earn
ings will be taken in taxes. whether
we shall have imitation or not"
Definite steps In the program
include:
~ Registration Of voters.
(2) Informing voters Of the
qualification Of candidates and
the voting records Of those In Of
flee.
(S) Actual work Of bringing
voters out to the polls In the
primary and final elections.
az Concentration on reaching
families OF CLIO members and
progressive women In other sec
lions Of our population In support
of our candidates.
1--WE must recruit and train our
members for the practical day-to-
day work among the voters of their
communities" the committee report
read. without this work political
victories cannot be won"
RECOMMEND ACTION
Recommending to internationals,
councils and locals that similar &C.
ton be adopted. CWA planned
guidance of this work by the estab-
lishment of a permanent sub-com-
mittee of the executive board on
political action.
"In the interest Of production
for winning the war and In the
interest Of helping solve the
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08
Go ReneWs
No-Sfrike
Pledge

Continued from Page 49,
less of the impact of their pol
icies upon the war effort; now,
therefore, be 1t
RESOLVED, (1) That the
CLIO hereby reaNirms its SOL
emn pledge without any quail
fications or conditions that for
the duration of the war there
must not be any strike or STOP
page of work. Each member
and each leader of organized
labor must make 1t his respon-
sibility to discharge with scru-
pulous care this sacred obliga-
tion. Any leader of organized
labor who deliberately fiouts
this obligation and any employ
er who seeks to provoke or ex-
plot labor are playing into the
hands of the enemies of our
nation.
(2) We must recognize that
for the duration of the war,
issues In dispute between la
Dor and management must be
adjusted through the peace
full means of collective bar
gaining, m Q diatiOn, or
through disposition by the
National War Labor Board.
(3) Further, we must recog-
nize that to assure the prosecu-
tion of a war program that
will prevent special groups from
exploiting labor or benefiting
from the sacrifices of others,
organized labor has the task Of
mobilizing the people on the
legislative and political fronts
behind win-the-war program
designed to meet the basic eco
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08

CLIO being held simultaneously
with the CLIO convention here.
Speaking to CLIO wives, sisters
and mothers. Murray credited the
auxiliaries of the union with
splendid work. forcefulness and
spirit" in legislative work. recruit
ing of union members. and effec-
tive work on consumer problems.
"You have not only an Or
binary obligation Of an American
citizen to achieve decent legisla-
tiOn,' he told CWA delegates.
"but beyond that a greater need
for building up instrumentalities
for the protection Of the people
after legislation has been secured.
These instrumentalities are labor
organizations, the only forceful
economic agencies that can bear
fruit for all the people.
This is our movement and
much Of the success which has at
tended the movement has been at
tributable to the splendid work OF
the women. You must fight to i'm
prove housing to carry out the CLIO
social security program, and to help
effect the political activities pro-
gram Of the cIO." he said. There
is a need for your thrusting your
entire weight und influence behind
this movement, to help your coun-
try and the families of The nation"
On behalf of Mrs. Murray. who
was unable to attend the confer
ence, Murray accepted . service
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08
They Made
The Wheels
60 Round

Philadelphia, Nov. 8-Leaders OF
organized housewives who planned
home front battle strategy in the
4-day CLIO auxiliaries conference
were the committee chairmen. Head
OF the Woodworking committee on
price control and rollback was
Helen Daggett of the UE auxiliary.
full-time organizer Of the Los
Angeles CTO Auxiliary Council.
From Canada came Mable Mayns
of the JAW auxiliary to serve as
chairman Of the organlzational COM
mittee.
Conducting meetings of the reso-
lutions committee was Vera Ford
of the Oil Workers auxiliary, whose
work In Port Arthur. Texas, proves
that Martin Dies constituents DIFF
fer greatly with his opinions and
actions.
To Caroline DeCaux of Washing
ton. D. C.. members Of the News
paper Guild auxiliary and chairman
OF the political action COMMITTEES.
CWA presented a war bond and
wallet for her services on the iegis-
lative program.
Also from the Guild auxiliary
Elaine Gailmore Of New York CITY
chaired the committee on war ar.
tivities, The important women-in.
industry committee. center of ac-
tivity throughout the week, was
headed by African 2.iebart Of An.
derson, Ind. JAW auxiliary dele
gate who found time to donate
blood to the Red Cross during the
conference.
Other chairmen included: rule.
and bylaws. Mary vessey Of Chi.
cago. Farm Equipment auxiliary,
credentials. Betty Hayes of Wash.
ington. Federal Workers auxiliarv
and press and publication. Kath-
crime Beecher Of New York CITY
UE auxiliary.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08

manpower situation" conference
delegates studied recommended
lions for national and community
action to allow fullest participa-
ton by women In industry.
CWA delegates proposed: in
creased facilities for care Of pre-
school and schoOlage children;
adjustment Of shopping facilities
for the benefit Of war workers;
in-plant feeding with an adequate
feeding program being made a
condition of issuance Of war con-
tracts; subsldizing Of laundries
with priOrities for service for war
workers; community educational
programs for recruiting poten-
tional workers; equal pay for
equal work: wiping out OF race
discrimination.
AS organize housewives.
auxiliary m m bers will fight
against Initiation through a two-fold
price control and rationing pro-
gram: az political pressure for
legislation for subsidies. grade la
belling and standards require
ments: an about war food program
with Limitation Of unnecessary
crops: extension Of price control to
all cost of living items and In
creased labor representation on all
policy-making committees of those
government agencies dealing with
the program.
(2) Aid in enforcement Of legisla-
ton through the Home Front cam
paign. participation In local con-
sumner committees. and price check
ing.
Immediate campaigning against
any increase In the price of milk
and for amendment of the Com
modify Credit Corporation Bill to
authorize use Of subsidies were in
cluded In the program.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08
Auxiliary PurIey
Drows rs Delegates

Philadelphia, Nov. 6-Ths Wom-
ems Auxiliary Conference, which
was held In conjunction with the
CLIO convention. drew Is delegates
from the auxiliaries of -16 interna-
tional CLIO unions. Sec.-Treas. Flea
nor Fowler said this week.
The delegates came from Is
states, from Maine to California and
from Texas to Canada.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08
'AuxiIidries Plan
Push on Political
Action for ~

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6-Striking at the roots Of prob
lens facing union families the postwar periods
Congress of W0mens Auxaes delegates outlined through
mee report and conference action program
vital issues including political action price control
problems, and problems of women In industry.
Joining the CLIO In planning about political
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08
Political
Action Urged
BY Mrs. FDR

Philadelphia, Nov. 6-Mrs. Flea
nor Roosevelt today called on Clio
wives and mothers to organize
community political action as a
means of meeting wartime and
postwar problems, in an address
to delegates and visitors to the
third annual conference of the
Womens Auxiliaries of the CLIO In
The Bellevue Stratford Hotel.
Urging her listeners TO "be-
come reckoned with as political
entities" and as voters capable Of
planning answers to problems Of
women In industry, Mrs. Roose-
Welt cited the limited time Of
women I'm industry for trying TO
achieve solutions OF community
problems which hamper their In
dustrlal participation, and pleaded
for greater Intelligent and In
formed" use Of the ballot by the
union auxiliary members.
Telling Of servicemen she met on
her recent South Pacific trip. Mrs.
Roosevelt said. I'VE will have
failed unless we manage to have
an economic set-up which gives
them Jobs. which sees that they
get the education they want, and
which makes lawmakers under
stand that boys who have had
medical care to be At to fight.
should also have 1t for themselves
and their families In order to be
at to live"
APPLAUDED
Interrupted from time to time by
the applause of 500 guests. Mrs.
Roosevelt praised the work of the
Army and Navy nurses, Red Cross
women workers and the women Of
Australia and New Zealand as she
told of her experience In the South
Pacific.
Preceding Mrs. Roosevelt was
Mrs. Julia Katz, a burner In the
BethIehem-FairfieId shipyards In
Baltimore. and national director
OF CWA. A two-fold job faces
the auxiliaries, Mrs. Katx stated,
that Of equipping women for
participation In industrial work
and I'm unions and that of equip
ping communities to make 1t pos
sibIe for women to work.
Mrs. Faye Stephenson Of Cleve.
land, National President of CWA
told delegates that I'VE must have
something to say in the winning
of the peace which will come
through our standing side by side
with labor and with the rest oil
the country. We must assure the
election of a win-the-war Congress
and prepare on the political front
for the everlasting peace"
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08

nomic problems arising out of
the war and to protect the in
terests Of the common people.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08

pin presented by q delegate from
the United Steelworkers auxll-
larry.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-11-08
Murray Predicts
W0menWiUEnfer
Go Leadership

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. GA important role for
In the organizaOnal structure of the labor
dicted this week by Clio Pres Philip Murray speech before
the third annual conference of the Womens Auxares the
Evening star., 1943-08-23

wall which the Nazis had erected
in Western Europe was prompted
by the fear that, unless we did
so, Russia might be pushed out
of the war and we would have to
face the Nazis alone in Europe.
A miniature offensive at Dieppe
showed the most enthusiastic
advocates of a second front now"
our difficulties. BY sending a
much larger force than the one
used at Dieppe, against a region
such as the Carentan Peninsula,
we might have obtained beach,
head at Cherbourg. But we did
not then have the necessary
force to back up that limited OBJ
jective.
Russia was not defeated. The
heroism of the Russian soldiers,
who were backed by splendid
American and British equipment,
rendered Hitler's effort futile.
A campaign in North Africa
was decided on as the best sub
stitute for the offensive across
the Channel. There have been
a number of American strategists
who did not believe In the in
vasion of North Africa.
Opposed Dispersal.
They did not want to see our
war effort dispersed, principally
because they knew that in the
summer of 1943 the pressure for
a second front across the Chan
mel would be even more pressing
than it was in 1912.
These strategists were over
ruled. The campaign in North
Africa was tempting. 1t was to
be cheap and sensational. There
may have been some political
lOIlSldCl dIlOllS lhfOifCu. clAieC
our strategy is so closely linked
with politics. In any event We
have dispatched a large force,
which could have been on hand
now in the United Kingdom, to
Africa and thence to Sicily. The
results have been satisfactory to
the British and ourselves.
Heavy Pressure Applied.
Now there Is a renewed outcry
and q terrific underground pres
sure on the American and Brit
ish strategists to start a second
front which would draw at least
90 to so NaZi divisions from the
Russian front and thus enable
the USSR high command to deal
the enemy a death blow.
Simple arithmetic based on
facts and figures should show
those who are sincere in their
Evening star., 1943-08-23

impossible for the Germans 10
do anything except disperse
their forces. And this Is what
makes Mr.. Bvrnes analysts, 1t
seems TO me, not quite true. The
enemy is not AS strong in de-
fense as in offenSe, because in
offense they could concentrate
their forces.
Furthermore, the German war
plan was for an offensive war
and it is always extremely diff
f1cult to fight an entirely differ
.ent war from the one planned.
Ludendorff recognized this in
1918, when he asked for an i'm
mediate armistice. knowing that
his war, which was an offensive
war, was lost.
Also, though the German mill
tary intelligence should never
be underestimated. it's strength
has never lain in Improvisation
The Germans have the faults of
their virtues; they move effec-
lively only according to long
laid plans.
At End of Manpower.
With their forces widely dis
persed. they could seek two
remedies: to shift their air
power from one danger point to
another, and increase their man
power by further mobilization.
Recent experience would seem
to show their air power to be
insufficient even if shifted, and
that we have air superiority
over all Europe Increased mo-
bilization was attempted early
this year by the most heroic
measures, but they have cer-
tainly scraped bottom.
They have called up fighting
men to such degree that they
have imperiled their economic
war effort and their internal
social structure and morale. Half
the workers now at German
benches are aliens-a most dan
gerous force when defeat begins
to loom. Nor can they get the
same results from this shift, for
the alien workers are not en-
thusiastic, are less efficient, and
demand greater supervision.
Their own internal propa-
ganda indicates they have moth
ing to offer the German people
but the promise that if they de-
cisively lose the war, they will
pass forever out of history as a
state and a nation.
Reports of Breaks in Morale.
Does this propaganda of
strength through fear" work?
There are indications that the
propaganda moves on crutches.
The fall Of Mussolini brought
civilian peace demonstrations in
Berlin. There are reports in
London that military morale has
begun to crack on the eastern
front. 1t goes so far that off,
GERS are afraid to go out alone at
night, lest they be shot in the
back by their own men.
Thus an overall picture makes
1t clear that German military
strength is dispersed and moral
strength waning. These facts
are certainly known to our lead
ers, and must have Influenced
decisions in Quebec. And they
explain the forecasts of coming
action.
tRelessed by The pelI Svpdirate TneN
Evening star., 1943-08-23

pool of uncontrolled private capital
in the world. But, more than that
they represent in the United States
directly, intimately and vitality a
far greater number of people than
all the other groups, elements.
unions, organizations and associa-
tions combined.
More than 67000,000 men and
women in the country are policy
holders. This is more than ma
jority of the whole population,
white, black, male, female, adults
and children.
In all history no other nation has
had so overwhelming a personal in
terest in maintaining the value of
the national currency and in sus-
tanning the solidity of the Federal
fiscal structure.
Strong But Impotent.
To the vast bulk of these 67,000,-
900, the life insurance policy and
the savings bank account, which is
closely akin, represent the differ
ence between solvency and insol-
vency.
These being the facts, one might
suppose that the great life insur-
ance companies, rallying their null
titudes of policyholders to political
action, would be the most dominant
pressure force in the Nation, ire
sistible when united on any ques-
ton affecting the strength of that
anchor to windward, the life insur-
ance policy.
That is what they could-and
should-be But the truth is that in
the past 10 years, when economic
danger has arisen, they have been
strangely, unintelligently and al
most completely impotent. They
have seen farm groups, labor groups,
racial groups and various radical
groups militantly rush in to protect
their special interests, enforce re-
cognition and enhance their power,
while the insurance group, repre-
senting vastly more than all the
rest together (and actually repre-
senting to large extent the other
groups, too has stood supinely by
while the very foundations on which
the security of their policyholders
rests were being sapped. e..
Why Their Silence.
When all the facts are considered,
! this seems almost criminal negli-
Evening star., 1943-08-23


ever was for an offensive war
was a wise caution against the
slightest slackening of effort,
which would certainly prolong
the war. Only in the prolonga-
ton of the war eio the Germans
see a chance for themselves-not
military chance, but a political
one-of splitting interallied unity
and thus being able to win, if not
the war, satisfactory peace.
To overestimate the enemy's
strength always is a wise attitude
unless this overestimation causes
us to miss favorable military and
political chances In that case
we do not shorten the war but
prolong it.
What do we know concerning
the real strength of our western
enemy?
Indicates Strength Scattered.
Military, the greatest con-
centration of German strength is
in Russia. Even with an esti-
mated 211 German divisions, the
Russians obviously have a margin
of superiority not only in man.
power, but in material, as the
Germans themselves confess.
The Russians estimate that
Hitler still has 81 reserve divi-
sions. a third of which are gar
risoned in western Europe.
This reserve is not large enough
for the tasks ahead of the Ger
mans. Otherwise it would be in
explicable why they did not re-
inforce Sicily and why they told
Mussolini that they would only
attempt to hold Italy north of
the Po.
One can only imagine what a
blow would have been inflicted
on us, had they defeated us in
Sicily where they must have
known that we would attempt
to land. Had they driven us
into the sea in Sicily, they would
have excluded full-scale inva-
sion for months.
i This symptom of weakness is
the more convincing, since their
withholding of forces was in
sufficient to prevent continued
defeats in Russia. 1t would
therefore appear that the Ger
man general staff is compelled
to dispose its forces to maintain
an irreducible minimum at every
critical point.
Different War to Fight.
II this be true, then contrary
to popular belief that we could
most effectively attack the Ger
mans at many different points,
with relatively small forces, We
could most effectively attack
them in great force, at almost
any point we might choose. The
fact that we now can attack, in
tnnumerable places, makes it
Evening star., 1943-08-23
The Great Game of Politics.

gence. Why were these great Gus
todians of the economic security of
more than half the Nation inert
when that security was imperiled?
Why, without arousing their
policyholders to the peril, did they
fail effectively to register against
the mounting debt, the deepening
deficits and the blatant idiocy of the
Tax, tax, tax, spend. spend spend,
elect, elect, elect political philoso-
ply of Harry Hopkins, jumped from
his obscure social workers activities
to post of great influence, as the
Presidents most intimate friend?
There are two answers to these
questions. One is that the insurance
companies in the past 10 years, and
particularly in the 1886 and 1910
campaigns, did not act with cour-
age, intelligence and unity to pro-
tect the interests of their policy
holders, because the direction of
these companies is not altogether
in the hands of courageous and in
telligent men. This is not to say
that there are not among them men
of courage and intelligence. 1t is
to say that those who possessed
these qualities were not able to
secure effective cooperation of their
colleagues in way to make a united,
impressive and convincing demon
stration.
Fear of ReprisaIs.
And the reason they were unable
to do this was because of their fear
of New Deal reprisals. The mo-
ment the insurance companies
acted in opposition to administra-
ton fiscal policies, the attack would
have been made. They were afraid
They were afraid of govern
mental insurance plan. They were
afraid of being accused of playing
politics. They were afraid of being
taken over.
out when they should have gone in.
They permitted a lot of damaging
things to happen which, by unity
and courage, they could have pre-
vented. No sensible man wants the
country run by the insurance COM
panies and no sensible man wants
the insurance companies in politics.
Losing Fight So Far.
Out of fear, inertia and lack of
cohesion they failed to act against
the New Deal economic heresies.
But, now, they are going to act,
with governmental acquiescence-
against imitation.
For, If these companies fully
arouse their 100000 policyholders;
they could not be resisted. So far,
the limitation fight has not been
a successful one.
Obviously, the administration can
not be counted on to take the ade-
quate steps. Tt talks, but it does
not act. Inhation-a calamity sec
ond only to military defeat-creeps
on us. But il more than half the
Nation acts, 1t can be stopped.
More than 180 companies, repre-
senting 80 per cent of the life-insur-
ance business, have agreed to par
ticipate in a real campaign by the
comma nieS against inf7a tiop-an5 IL
Is high time. > h+