Montana labor news., 1945-01-11

The Patriot revealed.
A letter from CAA Sec. Treas. Vance
Muse in Houston, Tex, to CAA support
ers, boasting of the anti-closed shep
right-to-work amendments passed in
November 1914 in Florida and Arkansas,
said. we will see that the matter is
given proper consideration in the other
46 states just as fas as We can get around
to it. Thirty-tWo state legislatures, by
memorializing Congress, can compel the
submission of the right-to-Work amend
ment to the federal. Constitution
Besides the right-to-work amendment,
the CAA plan includes anti-violence in
strike laws under which, the Patriot ex-
planned, al that's necessary to break up
labor union is for an employer to get
a stooge to charge that union officials.
members or pickets have threatened (not
necessarily committed violence to de-
prive him of his right to work Stiff
sentences and heavy fines 40 the rest,
and everybody who opposes these laws
is accused Of upholding the right to riot.
It also proposes repeal Of the Wagner
act
Behind this plan on a national scale,
the Patriot said, is the National Ass0-
citation of Manufacturers, spending more
than 81 million annually on its propa-
ganda arm the National Industrial In
formation Committee, and special work
with farmers. teachers, church and Wom-
ems groups
What the CAA does is sell Republican
ism to rich southerners, the Patriot said,
pointing out that the CAA was in the
forefront Of plots to split the solid south
and defeat Roosevelt. Chief CAA agi-
tators are Sen W. Lee (Pappy) ODaniel
of Texas, s. Valentine Ulrey, Texas real
estate man chiefly noted for advocating
12-hour day, 6-day workweek, and who
also helped distribute the propaganda of
indicted seditionist Gerald Winrod, and
Muse. Muses. long record as lobbyist for
big business included a campaign for a
tariff that would help large corporations
and a tax program that would exempt
corporations but soak the poor. He has
hobnobbed with America First Chief
Gerald L. K. Smith, the Patriot said
Muse has received financial contribu-
tions from such big northern industrial
lists as the Du Points, the Armour meat
packing family, George D. and Joseph E.
Widener, big Philadelphia bankers with
Morgan connections, John J. Raskob,
Du Pont vice president and director Of
Associated Gas & Electric, E. w. Nudge
OF Weirton Steel ogden Mills, Wall
Street lawyer, Alfred P. Sloan Of General
Motors and others, the Patriot disclosed.
A number OF the above mentioned We're
members of the Old Liberty League.
Pressure that influenced legislators to
vote for CAA laws came from such
groups as the Arkansas Faan Bureau
Federation, the Arkansas Bureau for In
dustrial Advancement, the Merchants &
Manufacturers Association in California,
and in Florida an alliance Of the Asso-
ciated Industries Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, State Chamber Of Commerce and
Citrus Growers Association, the Patriot
revealed. These groups also helped fl
nance the mass propaganda which is the
bulwark Of every CiAA campaign. Trick
of this propaganda is to sell the union
busting laws as protection Of the rights
Of servicemen, especially effective in
rural areas
The special interests which backed
Thomas E. Dewey in the election have
chosen the south as the firing line in
their fight to gain a foothold for Amer
lean fascism because democracy in the
south is dangerously weakened by the
poll-tax, race prejudice, weak labor
unions-only 1/S Of the workers are Or
ganized-poor schooling and bad health,
the Patriot said.