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continue, bust Is bound to follow.
And no one can stop it except the
exploiters."
| He said corporate profits after
taxes are running at the rate of
SIS, 000, 000, 900 a year compared with
$40, 000, 900 in 1914.
He told the $50 delegates that the
conventions greatest concern would
be wages.
Meantime President Truman's let
ter to the convention contained this
passage:
These are exciting and dangerous
times. For if the months ahead
usher in a period of inaction or
reaction. if we again put profits
above people, We will jeopardize the
very structure of our free society.
II We write a social contract which
violates the moral code or endan-.
gers the economic balance we shall
invite disaster.
Urges Common Aims.
$50. in offering my greetings to
the Congress Of Industrial Organiza-
tons, urge all Of its members to
prove, as they did during the war,
that their aims and purposes are
the common property of all who
labor"
Mr.. Murray spoke vigorously on
the situation following the capture
OF Congress by the Republicans.
He declared that If Republican
leaders think the election results
gave them mandate to cruelty"
labor, they are making q grave
mistake"
mo! moi" he shouted. "They
can't do that to the American peo-
lple"
In defiant and bitter language Mr..
Murray reviewed the big CLIO strikes
OF last winter and blamed them
squarely on big business. He said no
CLIO union "precipitated strike"
He began by saying this would be
one OF the most important of all
Clio conventions. He also declared
it would be unified" convention.
The convention was scheduled to
approve the anti Communist decla-
ration which was Endorsed unani-
mously by the 51-man Executive
Board yesterday.
The statement puts the CIO on
record as pledging only one ma
tional allegiance-to the United
States. 1t declares the convention
delegates resent and reject efforts
OF the Communist Party or other
political parties and their adherents
to interfere in the affairs of the
CLIO"
Reafflrm Faith In q. S.
"In our efforts to win economic
security and social justice and to
unite our movement against the
forces of reaction and the enemies
OF democracy, we reaffirm our faith
that those goals can be achieved
for the American people through
the democratic process and without
sacrificing any of our basic human
freedoms" the statement said.
"The CLIO as an American or
ganization has no interest apart
from the interest of our people and
our country. We stand opposed to
all forms of oppression and in favor
of the four freedoms-freedom of
religion, freedom from fear, free
dom from want and freedom of
speech for every one-everywhere.
We stand answering in our
loyalty to these principles which
America symbolizes and will resist
with all our might every attempt
by elements from within our coun-
try or from without to undermine
or destroy our free institutions.
In the words of our great Presi-
dent Philip Murray: We must de-
vote our lives as trade unionists
toward the upbuilding of better
life for Americans, and we must
pledge only one national allegiance,
and that allegiance is to our own
country, the United States of Amer
lea. There can be no difference in
point OF view regarding those phases
of the situation. There should not
be. There must not be-
SsSCt SOuuuuuhSt interference.
, TN pursuit of the principles set
forth herein and adopted by the
CIO Executive Board, we, the dele
gates to the eighth constitutional
convention of the Congress of In
dustrial Organizations, resent and
reject efforts of the Communist
Party or other political parties and
LOST.
MISSING sinee Ney. %. 1915. q police