Eastern Connecticut news., 1946-09-14
FaSciStS in Drive To Wreck Unions, Green Tells Rally

AS usual, newspapers gave a one-sided account last week of an address delivered by President William Green of the A. F. of L., at big Labor Day celebration in Tulsa, Okla. The affair was one of the largest of its kind ever held in Tulsa or the Southwest, and drew labor delegations from many neighboring cities.
 Newspaper stories gave the im- pression that Greens whole speech was devoted to an attack on Soviet Russia's activities abroad and on Communist tactics at home.
 He did call for firm mo ap- peasement" stand toward Russia as the best way to achieve inter- national peace. Also, he de- nounced the boring from within" methods of the Reds" in this country and predicted disinte- grafton of the CIO because of a growing split over Communist control.
 However, he also went after the FasciSts in this country hammer and tongs but that part the newspapers overlooked entirely.
 Cites Fascist Drive
 "The forces of Fascism in Am erica have determined to make a Iast-ditch effort to smash trade unions" he said. ''They have un- leashed a bitter propaganda cam paign against labor and they are financing an expensive legislative drive to deprive workers of their fundamental rights, both in Con- gress and state legislatures"
 This warning by Green was ,
 particularly significant be-
 cause it was made in a state
 where anti-labOr forces, i'm
 cluding leading newspapers,
 have for the past several
 years conducted an unremit-----
 ting drive to stir up preju-
 dice against labor.
 This campaign, he said has been concentrated particularly on put ting over state laws prohibiting ''union shop" agreements. It is sponsored, he said, 'fby some of the most reactionary individuals and groups in the nation"
 LaShes Senator Moore
 Bluntly, Green then charged that Senator Edward H. Moore Rep), millionaire oil map whose home is in Tulsa has been one of the foremost packers Of this drive" Tn fact. ever since he was elected in 1942, Moore has devoted nearly all his time to at tacking labor and pushing for Congressional legislation to de- stroy 1aIbor's rights.
 Greene also assailed the mis- called Christian American Asso- citation" and the Committee for Constitutional Government" as among the leading sponsors of the 'hate labor" campaign.
 The former, he said, is
 neither Christian nor Amer
 ican." but is actually
 racket"
 Wagner Act i'm Danger
 Under cover of the propaganda campaign, anti-labor forces for the first time made headway in the last Congress, Green said. They put over the Case Bill, which he labelled "the worst leg islative blow against labor ever struck by Congress, but "fortu- nately," he added President Tru- man vetoed that bill"
 Nevertheless, emboldened by their success" Green warned, ''the enemies of labor are now fomenting campaign for de- struction of the National Labor Relations act, the Magma Charta Of American workers" t.
 Says Labor Will Fight Back
 Green made 1t clear that labor does not propose to sit idly by and accept the demolition Of all the gains won during the past quarter century"
 &He declared the trade union movement would fight in the courts to knock out the anti-labor laws already enacted in the states and at the same time would make the greatest effort it has ever un- dertaken to "clean house of law 11N sta CfQfnC