The union times., 1947-02-01
Rank And File Aroused Over Laws
All Locals Urged To Write Protests To Their Con-
 gressmen and Senators.

WASHlNOION,D D.C. UT ganized labor throughout the nation is building up a cam- paign of strong resistance to national and state legislative proposals for punitive labor 
 Labor leaders throughout the country have appealed to the rank and file to register vigorous with their legislative representatives against proposals to cruelty labor" on the built up theory that recent labor-man- agement disputes have been caused by untustifed demands of workers.
 TRANSFERS ACT
 Meeting in Miami, the General Executive Board of the Interna- tiOnal Brotherhood of Teamsters (AFL), took strong stand against Government interference in jurisdictionaI. disputes.
 ''LabOr claims the just right to settle its own affairs in the future as it has done in the past" said a telegram from President Daniel J. TObin to Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, new chairman of the Senate Labor and Education Committee.
 The message referred specifically to proposed bills for setting up a Gov ernment tribunal or commission to handle jurisdictional clashes.
 ''TRESPASSINC"
 If the Government trespasses on the rights of labor to settle its own disputes, undoubtedly as time goes on it will encroach further on the fiber ties of the workers and their organ ization," MT. Tobin warned.
 GREEN ACTS
 AFL President William Green, in a letter to all international, national and local AFL afi1iates, advised all mem berS to be on constant guard against of measures in federal and state legislatures which would impose undue burdens and uncalled-for limi- tations upon organized workers in the United States.
 ''It is highly important at this time that every worker in America should study with gravesf concern the labor legislation which is being not only 10 the national Congress but to his State LegisIa- ture," MT. Green said i'm his mes- sage. ''There has never been a pe- riOd of more extreme danger to the welfare of the American work CT than right now and his best in- surance against unfair legislation is a sharp intelligence regarding the measures confronting our Iegisla- tures.'
 MT. Green pointed out that bills have been presented in Congress which would completely wipe out the bene- fits gained by labor in the last decade and would Shack1e workers to the post to which they had been tied for long of years.
 MEETING EVERYWHERE
 Meanwhile, overflow meetings were being held throughout the country to protest vigorously against anti-labor bills which had been swamping Con- gress and State Legislatures.
 In San Francisco such an out pouring was held under the aus pices of the San Francisco Central Labor Council, where the meeting unanimously approved a resolution by Local 265, International Broth erhOod of Teamsters, calling upon lS2 local unions to wire or write California members of Congress urging them to oppose anti-labOr 
 Delegates of the Chicago Fedora tion of Labor, the Railroad Brother hoods and independent unions, repre- Senting nearly million organized plan joint meeting there to draw up their strategy against anti union steamroller moves in Congress.
 SALT LAKE CITY
 In Salt Lake City, Utah, AFL lead CTS have joined with independent rail-. road brotherhoods and other labor groups for an intensive study of the potential effects of proposed legisla- tion in the State and of national scope.
 As these and similar other de- velOpments were being reported from various sections of the coun- try Senators of opposing political faiths were presenting widely diff ferent views on the solution of lac bOr-managemenf, however, against granting the Government compuI- sOry power in labor disputes.
 Senator James E. Murray, Demo crat, of Montana, appearing before the opening session of the newly con- stituted Senate Labor and Welfare Committee, proposed "go-slow" ap-