The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-06-17
President Williu1n
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| depend upon the colnuhtteeS report
he said
II personally can only reaflirm my
previous statement that the application
will be given n'serous and sympathetic
consideration" AIR. Green said.
The AFL committee that will con-
fer with Mr. Lewis consists of Daniel
j. TObin, president of the international
brotherhood of Teamsters; George
Harrison, president of the Brother
hood of Railway Clerks, and Matthew
Vol, vice president of the Photo
Engravers Union.
An important factor in their dis
question of District 80 of the United
Mine Workers, the affiliate set up by
Mr.. Lewis originally to organize chem
ical and coal by-products workers, but
whose jurisdiction he has extended to
take in almost any workers willing to
join. The AFL negotiatOrS, it was be-
! leved, would seek from Mr.. Lewis a
pledge that District 80 would not en-
croach upon the jurisdiction of AFL
aiiliateS.
Mr.. Green said that while the AFL
executive council would not meet again
until Aug. 8 in Chicago, when it would
consider the report of it's committee on
the miners application, it was possible
that, should the report require speed
ier action, Il special meeting of the
council might be called to vote on the
report, or IL vote of its members might
be taken by mail.
Conflicting Views On Lewis
1t appeared that while ii majority
of the AtL executive council felt
| favorable toward the miners applica-
tion which, if granted, would add
more than 5O0,OOO members to the
AFL's membership of more than 6,OOO,-
600, there was some opposition among
council members to letting Mr.. Lewis
and his organization return to the
| federation. AFL afliliates are likewise
not unanimous in their view of the
miners application. This is evident,
particularly among apparel trades
unions.
While David Dubnsky, president of
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, with a membership of
| 315,OOO, has welcomed Mr.. Lewis APP
pliCation as "a forward move in the
direction of Il united labor movement
hopeful" Max Zaritsky, president of
the United Hatters Cap and Millinery
Workers International Union, changed
his attitude on Mr.. Lewis.
On May 10 Mr.. Zaritsky said the
miners application for return to the
AFL fold "bOdes fair for the future
of the labor movement" but early this
week he declared that Mr.. Lewis ap-
plication was "a, dagger pointed at the
heart of the American labor movement
and if accepted would destroy what
ever prospects there might otherwise
be for unity between the AFL and the
CIO."
Mr. Zaritsky's latest view was in
contrast to that of Luigi Antonini,
first vice president of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union, gen
eral manager of DreSsmakerS Local
80, with Il membership of $4,000, and
former State chairman of the Ameri-
can Labor Party. Mr.. Antonini took
the position that 1.-The return of the
miners to the AFL would pave the way
for larger and comprehensive unity
between the warning factions of or
ganized labor"
Obstacle TO Labor Unity Seen
Mr.. XaritSky, whose organization
represents approximately $4,000 work
crs, charged that Mr.. Lewis applica-
ton for realliliatiOn with the AFL was
not made from any desire to further
unity but to prevent 1t. He also re-
called that as president of the CIO,
before his support of Wendell l..
Willkie against President Roosevelt in
1910, Mr.. Lewis had worked in ca
hoots with the Communists whom he
supported, and who supported him in
his wrecking activities"
Mr.. XaritSky'S view was expressed
in an advance copy of an editorial pre-
pared by him for The Hat Worker,
official organ OF his union.
"If the cause of unity is to be
served" Mr.. Xaritsky said "let us hold
off Lewis application to rejoin the
AFL until after future unity with the
tlo is achieved. Let us hold it of
until after Lewis capacity for dam
age and IiNiSiDn is rp(lucp1 or re-