The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-05
H Anti Labor Attitude Due To Unfair Reporting Murruy Says c.l.ss Got Distorted Story 0f Strikes, High Wages and Absentee ism; Lobor Offers 5-Point Program to
 Meet Justifioble Demonds

New York, oct. 6--"Labor can- not net It's story presented fairly and nronerly," Philip Murray, pres ident of the CTo, Is quoted as saying in an article entitled Labor An- ewers The e. T." in the current is- sue of Golfers. The national week " presents the article as the unions "slde of the story" in their flahk against the "anti-labor atti- tudes" of millions Of returning e. f.'s.
 "servlcemen have suffered Q bar- faRe of distortion against strikes, nliegedly exorbitant wages and ab- senfeelsm,' Murray Is quoted as charging in conjunction with a state- ment that, ln his opinion, the c, Is have ':'more feeling against unions" than any other American institution. Murray does not name the press in his charge.
 The d. I.'s convinced that all war workers were earning Si60 Q week, every week." it is charged by Stanley Prank, author of the article, and that "a strike was called every time dizzy dame was addressed harshly hy the foreman for wearing Q cozy rcd sweater"
 Union labor can rebut these atti- tudes. Prank reports, by revealing that War Labor Board statistics show that i4,000,000 war workers averaged only 70 cents an hour in March, io45, while living costs in- creased nearly 10 per cent more than wages, and thas only one tenth pf one per cent of working time was lost in io44 as Q result of walkouts,
 The article also presents labor's case against firing Q union man to make possible the unemployment of a discharged veteran,l as called for by an interpretat tion of the c. I. Bill of Rights by Majof General Lewis B. Hershey, director of seleetive serv- Ice.
 While Frank reports that CIo President Murray charges that "la. hor cannot get it's story presented fairly and properly" he points out that "the total times lost by work stoppages was SO insignificant that the Associated Press was able to re- port on July 8, lo4b:
 ""Time lost in all the strikes since Pearl Harbor was virtually off- sot yesterday by millions of workers who observed Independence Day by laboring ct their machines and benches.
 Frank refers to the "stupendous" war production record as proof that reports of strikes, as received by e. I.s, were exaggerated, and then speaks of the tributes to labors ae- eomplishmentS by Generals Mar shal, Eisenhower and Arnold. He does not say whether these tributes were reported by the press.
 Labor has formulated the follow ing flve-point program, Frank dee ciares, to meet oil the "juStiflable demands" Of the 'embittered C.. E,s."
 First, labor grants seniority to @. Y.s from the date of their in- Suction into the service; second, It gives plant-wlde seniority to dis. Abled men; third, it permits Q vet. kran to take, his wife's seniority, If ArOater than his own; fourth, tt kaives oil initiation fees, and fifth.
 gives free training and retresher Courses in new industrial techniques.
 General Hershey, in ruling that c snion worker must Do fired if necs Assary to reinstate c discharged vet. Iran, touched of the most con. Foversiai Issue in the recent history Af labor relatlons," Prank declares. This ruling, in the first test in the 3ourts, was recently upheld by . Brooklyn Federal Court.
 Labor Is said to charge that the ruling can lead only to "class dis. tinetions" and economic warfare." and that, If wo are to deprive c union worker Of his Job to give Q veteran c Job, it would Do as logical to give farmers land to c dis. charged army doctor.