The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-08-12
Will Oppose Entry
Of Miners In AFL
Council Committee To Re.
port At Chicago Meeting
Aquinst Admittdnce Now
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NOUnC1l NOn1l1llttCC 10 ne
port At Chicago Meeting
Against Admittdnce Now
Chicago = 4 three-man committee
which was named To confer with John
l.. Lewis on the application OF the
United Mine Workers of America for
re-admission to the American Fedora
ton of Labor will probably make Il
report to the Federation's executive
council, opposing immediate entrance
of the miners union.
The committee, headed by Daniel j.
TObin Of the International brotherhood
of Transfers, will base its report on
Mr.. Lewis unwiIIngness to furnish
detailed data sought by the committee
on the composition of District 80, the
miners "catch-all' organization.
An adverse report is expected to be
opposed by William l.. HutcheSon,
president of the International Brother
hood of Carpenters, sponsor of the
miners return to the AF'L.
The report of the committee may be
referred to the October convention OF
the Federation or Mr.. Lewis may see
fit to withdraw the miners applica
ton if the council fails to provide for
their admission at the current meeting.
Or Mr.. Lewis might change his mind
and furnish the data requested by the
Tobin committee.
Sticks TO District
Mr. Lewis was adamant against
supplying this information three weeks
ago when the committee, led by Mr..
Tobin, George NJ Harrison of the
brotherhood of Railway Clerks and
Vice President Matthew VOL con-
ferred with him and committee Of
his organization Mr. Lewis insisted
that the UMWA be admitted with its
mixed membership of District 80.
After that the problem of conflicting
jurisdiction might be adjusted.
Just how the TObin committee could
phrase ii refusal to recommend imme-
diale entry of the miners was not dis
closed. 1t was regarded as certain that
no specific recommendation would be
offered, but that Mr.. Lewis attitude
would leave no alternative but to re-
fuse his request at the time. The door
may possibly he held open for some
later affirmative action, however, if
Mr.. Lewis is patient and abstains
from precipitatc action.
The discussion before the council
will probably revolve mainly about
District 30, which includes hotel
workers, railroad employees, dairy
workers and building trades employees
The AFL unions have similar crafts
and would like to have possible con
tict between the Lewis group and their
unions adjusted at once
Both the AFL and District 80 also
have coke and chemical workers
While Mr.. Lewis Is reported to have
expressed Willingness to make an
arrangement deemed satisfactory to
the AI'L with regard to the miScel-
aneous crafts, to judge from his in
SiStance the miners retain jurisdiction
over the coke, chemical and by
products workers.
The AFL. ii is assumed, will not be
unwilling to make an adjustment with
respect to the status of the Progress
sive Miners of America which received
Il charter on May "a, 1898. Lloyd A..
Thrush of Springfield, H., president
of the Progressive Miners, Il rival of
the Lewis union, expects to go before
the council and plead its right to CON
tinue holding the charter
. If the council should wish to ignore
! the AFL constitution so as to hurry
the United Mine Workers back into
the fold, they may do so. But nobody
expects them to change their minds.
The constitution provides that an ap-
: plying union must clearly state its
! claimed jurisdiction before it joins the
!, AFL, SO that any unions which may
have claims against rivals inside the
) petitioning organization may have an
opportunity to present their cases.
ROll-back Plea Repeated
: Opening its quarterly meeting, the
council adopted declaration that un-
less food prices were rolled back to
, the levels of Sept Is. 1912, labor will
have no other recourse but to insist
} upon an up-t0date revisions of the
) Little Steel formula by the National
: War Labor Board"
The declaration reiterated previous
. complaints that efforts to stabilize
prices had failed and asserted that the
: national economic StabilizatiOn pro-
gram has worked thus far in only
! one directiou-and that is to freeze
, wages"
The broad objective of the Fedora
tion's program, it was said, should be
l ito provide for the production of sutti'
< cient food for all our wartime needs
and to bring the prices of food back
into equitable relationship with wages
t and stabilize both at a reasonable and