Montana labor news., 1945-06-21

Details OF the propaganda, lobbying
and organizational activities big business
has been carrying on to sell its program
to the public and arm its members
against labor and the government were
revealed in the MANS yearly statement
of income and disbursements, How Your
NAM Dollar Was Spent in 1914
Last year the NAM took in from its
members 81 1,89O,O3896. It spent $685.
58195 on broad propaganda activities.
excluding union-fighting Disguised in
the statement as services on behalf of
industry" this included the MANS high
powered manipulation of newspapers,
radio. movies, school, church, womens
clubs and farm groups to get across its
free enterprise program and the
soundness of managements position on
current issues and management's good
faith and good motives"
The statement gives the NAM credit
for providing the machinery for devel-
opment and promotion of sound fed
eral fiscal policy" a reference to the
1914 tax bill, passed over labor's protest
and condemned by President Roosevelt
as providing relief not for the needy but
for the greedy"
The NAM also boasts that its work
put over the social security tax freeze
in Congress, preventing the building up
of the funds needed to tide workers over
t the reconversion period 1t spent s67,-
994.4l on these two legislative aims alone.
e Another s98, .2s was spent on work.
: ing up sentiment for relaxation or re-
e moval of wartime controls" sound pro-
t cedures in terminating war contracts"
/. and "marshalling business support re-
I" sponsible for the many developments in
: the Price Control Act and its admins
r tration."
This last confirms NAM backing of the
e intensive lobbying throughout the past
o year to sabotage oPA and the price con-
: troll law, which labor has warned would
t cut deeply into workers wages by fore
ing sIzy-high prices during reconversion.
MANI AbANAblA sA eteS RAe5t e'4AAg nAAAN-A 49,
= yors cartels and opposes the Breton
. Woods plan for international economic
u cooperation, took another siSable sum.
y Aids to anagement in fighting unioos,
# getting around the NIiRB and War Labor
h Board, keeping up company unions and
e refueing wage demands were scattered
d over such items as Law Department
and industrial Relations Services, cost
d ing S163 492.53 NAM members were
d given weekly tips on the latest court and
E WIlB decisions providing possible loop
holes in collective bargaining procedure
= Member requests for such information
n reached new high during the year,
n the statement said.
Insight into the MANS methods for
getting big business point Of view heard
in Washington is given in the descrlp-
ton of the Washington office and ad-
ministrative expenses. which ate up close
~ to S50O,OOO NAM cooperates closely
y with federal departments and agencies
u concerned with prosecution of the wal
" and transition and postwar problems,
=. the statement said.
10 NAM officers and committee chair
u men in addition to close contacts witt
u individual government officials and con-
III gressmen, participated in literally scorei
y of hearings before, or conferences with
~ government departments, boards anC
~ commissions"
T. In its last annual convention in De
y cember, 1914, the NAM resolved to in
tensify its fight against the NIRB, VILE
OPA, FEPC, Securities and Exchang
Commission and legislative protection 0
labor, controls on profits, monopoly prac
tees and foreign trade. It also declare
war on the administration full employ
ment program and announced plans t
"counter-act' labors politician actor
That's how the NAM dollar will be spen
ri in l945.