Evening star., 1946-05-12

Stalin- Hitler pact and then became
superpatriots after Hitler invaded
Russia" Mr.. Green said. Now they
have swung back to the old charges
of American imperialism because
our country has had the courage to
oppose Soviet Russias aggressive
foreign policy"
Warns Southern Employers.
OF Southern employers he said
whether they like it or not. the
workers of the south are going to
organize. Employer resistance will
only redouble our efforts. Nothing
can stop us. Neither the opposition
or reactionary management, nor the
rivalry of the communistic dual
movement-let me give Southern in
dustry this warning-grow and CO.
operate with us or fight for your
life against communist forces"
Predicting the drive would produce
/ 100000 new AFL members before
another year has passed." Mr.. Green
said: I'VE insist that the South
must not become a permanently
| blighted area. condemned forever
to occupy back seat in the Nation S
economic life
Senator Morse, former vice chair
man of the National Labor Relations
Board, warned the delegates to ex-
pect passage of some form of labor
legislation during the present term
OF Congress, possibly an amended
Case bill, which he said he thought
would cause more labor trouble
than it would prevent.
He promised to fight for a de
cent" minimum wage bill and
| changes in Senate rules to defeat
the filibuster and end seniority sue
cession to committee chairmanships.
These and other parliamentary pro-
cedures, he said, made possible
Government "by blocs and minority
dictates"
Asks for Sacrifice Plays"
| Commenting that too many men,
in Congress "are not willing to exer-
else an independence of judgment
for their country without thought of
re-erelection" Senator Morse called
for some sacrifice plays"
/ "One of the greatest obiectives
democratic government should be
the protection Of the economic weak
from the exploitation of the eco
nomic strong-and doing it within
the framework of a private-property
economy he declared.
Senator Morse praised what he
/ termed the great industrial states
manship of Erik johnson, president
/ of the Motion Picture Association of
America, but branded heads of the
National Association of Manufac-
turers leaders of selling
the American economy right into
the hands of those leftists" who
| seek to supplant it.
| Praising. miners, he said the work
stoppage had focused public atten-
ton on "the great economic sig
niflcance of the heroic labor that
| those men down in the bowels Of the
earth perform for the American
people"
7 Before Mr.. Green's address, the
meeting heard the Communist"
charge fired at the CIO and its
leaders by other AF'L leaders. in
cluding George Meany. secretary
treasurer; Frank P. Fenton, or
ganization director President John
Frey of the Metal Trades Depart
ment, and Michael Widman, or
ganization director of the United
Mine Workers, District so.
Scornfully, Mr.. Widman called
the CIO Communist interna-
t1onal order" its president, Philip
Murray "Fiddlin' Phil" PAC chair
man Sidney Hillman the pants
presser," and CIO Secretary-Treas-
urer James B. Carey the little Office
boy" To Mr.. Widman they were
political advertisers of the Com
munist party"
Doubling the CIO could raise ST.
100000 to finance its own Southern
organizing campaign, Mr.. Widman
said it had defaulted on 81 .665 900
obligation to the United Mine Work.
ers and added:
Il think we'd give any of you
about 10 per cent if you'd collect it,
OF the mine strike truce, he said
it was AN act of craftsmanship un-
equalled since the end of the war"
on the part of John L. Lewis.
I'm sure no other man could get
them back unless he.said go back"
Mr.. Widman said. He expressed
confidence the UNIV would obtain
the health and welfare fund ar
rangement sought by Mr.. Lewis.
Lewis Sends Message.
MIR. Lewis, who was scheduled to
address the conference, sent a tele-
gram of regret in which he men
toned the imperative nature of
meetings in which I am participat-
ing in Washington"
The telegram continued:
THE undertaking of establishing
in the South the rights OF collective
bargaining and improved economic,
social and political privileges so
long denied the workers of the
South is primarily the task of the
American Federation of Labor and
its affiliated international organi-
cations, task that can be achieved
by no other organization. The United
Mine Workers of America will do
its part in cooperating in this
greN job"
During the morning session Mr..
Meany said Southern workers were
being given a choice between IAN
organization of trade unions and
trade unionists who have never
swerved for a single minute from
the principle laid down so long ago
by Sam Gompers, the principle that
you cannot be good union man
unless you are first good Amer
ican".
I'VE are dedicated to the prin-
ciple of organization without re-
gard to creed or color" Mr.. Fenton
declared
Between addresses, the delegates
heard songs by a group of coloreti