The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-10-14
Tobin Fears Break
In No-Strike Stand
Warns WLB OfWulkouts By
Tedmsters If Board Con-
tinues It's Delays
BY n. Il. O. p. DELEGATES

| BOSTON. MaSS.-l.aDOf pleuSe To re-
frain from strikes for the duration of
the war may be Scrapped, Daniel }.
TObin, president of the International
Brotherhood of Transfers. told the
i3rd annual convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
Not much longer can international
officers and local heads of unions hope
to control their memberships in the
face of .'dilatory tactics by the Ma
tional War Labor Board and ''tamper-
ing by Washington bureaucrats," the
head of the AFL'S most powerful union
advised the 600 delegates.
Tobin took the platform after asking
| William Green president of the AIL.
| for permission ito make Il statement.
The teamSters' leader left no doubt that
he was moved to speak by the occur
renee of Il few moments before, when
| Warren II. Atherton, national com
mander of the American Legion told
the delegates that it was treason for
labor to call strikes during time of
war
| SO aroused were the delegates at
Atherton'S statement, enthuSed by
| Green's reply that they Immediately
adopted Il resolution instructing tn"
executive committee of the AFL to
consider the advisablity of purchasing
| advertising space i'm the newspapers to
set forth their leaders answer TO the
LegiOnnaire'S charge
Although he repeated Green's aSser-
ton that labor thus far has done ~
magnificent job" in war production.
| TObin SObered the delegates with his
warming as to what the future might
hold. He said the situation had grown
so serious that he had sent word of if
to William Davis, chairman of the
Il short time before
Board ReprOached
Reading MS telegram to the con
vention, Tobin engaged the full atten-
ton of the assembly as he quoted one
part, setting forth:
81 now notify you and the War Labor
Board that both myself and my aSSo-
ciateS find it impossible to convince our
membership Immediately in many
places of the necessity of observing
our no-strille pledge, because of what
they and | consider an unnecessary de
lay in endeavoring to make decisions
in cases submitted by those unions to
the War Labor Board.
The war situation is becoming more
intense. The labor situation is becom
ing more difficult and the workers,
having Just grievances that should be
adjusted, will not be easily controlled
Personally, while | am willing to make
any and every sacrifice humanity pos
siblc, | believe the workers, in many
instances, have just reason for resent
ment against the awful unnecessary
delays of the War Labor Board and
its constituted representatives
Tampering' Charged
Speaking of labor'S nO-Strikc pledge
and the attitude of the Wl.B and of
Congress, Tobin said in conclusion
Labor has kept its pledge, but they
haven't kept their pledge with labor"
Illustrating his charge of "tampcr-
ing on the part of officials in Wash
ingtOn, he cited the passage of tn"
Smith-tonnolly "nO-Strilic' legislation.
I'VE told the unions at the outset OF
the war that they couldn't Strike,' he
said. Since the passage of the bill |,
one international officer alone, have re
ceived more than 100 requests for per
mission to call strikes. In each of those,
under the Smith-t connolly act had been
met. There wouldn't have been those
requests, if il had not been for tampcr-
inc wifi n nIIr machinery" "