The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-06-22
Inspiring Address On Union
Ldbel Delivered By Ornburn

through women's hands on their way
to the retailer
During the past months, all records
of production in America have been
broken. OF that accomplishment. we
are proud In order to win the war
both the wage-earner and 1.-The manu-.
facturer have broken all production
records. During all of the war, there
has not been a shortage of anything
due to the failure of the soldiers of
production. Don't forget that. We have
not let our fighting men on the battle
fields down. Still the daily papers
would have you believe and would
have the soldiers Oh the battlefield be-
lieye that we have let him down.
Now we have a story to tell that we
cannot tell through the newspapers,
but we can tell that story by the ex-
penditure of this reserve of cash that
we have saved through War Bonds
and War Saving Stamps In addition
to workers savings, the citizens gen
orally have huge savings in building
and loan associations and other saving
agencies. The best way for us to tell
our story is by demanding that the
things we buy be union-made know
in your local union, you have a few
members who never had to make the
fight that the pioneers had to make to
build up the Maryland State and Dis
trict of Columbia Federation of Labor
an ct. IL
they will place top much dependence
upon government protecting their jobs
and wages Don't depend upon govern
mental regulation or some govern
mental agency to maintain and protect
your wages. The best policy is to do
what Samuel Gompers told us to do
and that is never to depend upon the
federal government to do what a trade
union should do for itself and its
members.
The government will freeze the
union membership, but they will not
build up union; they never have
You may 90 before the War Labor
Board or before the National Labor
Relations Board and you may have an
50 per cent membership they will
freeze it at SO per cent, but they will
let the other Is per cent go on cutting
your heart out Where are these Is
per cent going to be when the war is
over? They are not going to come over
and join your union. They are going
to the employer and say, Mr.. En-
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am not going to join the union. l am
going to work for the wages and under
the conditions that you want me to
work" That is what the conditions
will be- Don't forget that the great
unions have been built under the old
system of volunteerism. If they didn't
join, there were ways to persuade
them to join, and it worked. That is
how the labor movement has grown.
We are the only nation in the world
that can meet as we are meeting her"
today. This is the greatest country in
the world with the greatest system in
the world. Only Ander such a system
could the labor movement have pros
pered as it has here. | would like 10
nave any delegate, in this convention
stand up that would want to change
our system for that of any other sys-
TEN in the world or trade their citizen
ship for citizenship in any other ma
ton in the world.
When this war is over, we don't |
want to lower our wages or our work-'
ing conditions. | want to be good
labor man, 365 days in the year and so
do you. We will help these folks who
are returning to peacetime industry |
and those who are returning from the
armed services. Ii is going to be only |
a question of how many of our boys |
shall die on foreign battlefield We
are going to win this war, but let's win |
by preserving American institutions
here in the United States. And when
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