The union times., 1947-05-03
MEET WITH CIO

Other outstanding developments as the Executive Council concluded its Spring session included:
 l-The first conference between AFL and CIO Peace Committees in more than five years. was arranged to be held May l at the Statler Hotel in the nations capital in an attempt to form a united labor movement and sOlidify IabOr's ranks against the threat of de- struction by legislation.
 @AFL President William Green. at press conference, denounced exorbitantly high prices and charged that the same forces which are trying to rob the American peo- pie through inflated living costs are the ones who are trying to ham, string labor unions through rec strictive legislation.
 3-AFL Secretar- Treasurer George Meany launched the AFL's radio campaign to defeat the Hartley and Taft bills with two network ad- dresses warning labor's enemies that they are provoking industrial war fare. We, of labor, know how to fight" MT. Meany emphasized
 4-The Executive Council, in an of fcial blast at the same legislation, de- clared that it is President Truman's duty to veto it.
 Within 24 hours after the Exeeu- tive Council announced its program for raising a war chest 10 fight the legislative attack against labor's freedoms, the cheeks from interna- tiOnal unions started pouring in. The assessment, levied at the rate of Is cents per member, is intended to cover an intensified six weeks campaign, intended to awaken the American people to the dangers contained in this legislation"
 ''FASCISTIC"
 The Executive Council emphasized in its formal statement that these dan gers are aimed not only at labor but at the public generally and will "open the door to Fascism in America by impairnig freedoms basic to the Amer ican way of ife.'
 Joseph A. Padway, AFL Chief Counsel, spent four hours with. the Executive Council analyzing in detail the specific provisions of both the House and Senate bills. His conclu- sion, after the extended pricing ses- sion, was that enactment of either measure would destroy free trade unions in America within a short time."
 FACTS COMING OUT
 Sponsors of the legislation, who have been engaging in a double-talk campaign for months as build-up for public support, began to lose their heads and let the cat out of the bag.
 Chairman Hartley of the House Labor Committee told the House the purpose of his bill was ''tO break unions down to the local leveI.' Chairman Taft of the Sem ate Labor Committee admitted to the Senate that the objective of his bill is to 'Eweaken the power of la- bor uniOns.'
 He revealed even more in an ad- dress before the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York, Senator Taft told the publishers-and you can mark thiS-that the Senate labor bill was not "milk-toast" bill, but covered about three-quarters of the matters pressed on us very strenuously by employers"
 FINE HAND OF NAM
 This was direct confirmation of the charge made by Secretary-Treasurer Meany and the Executive Council that the National Association of Manufac- turers was the key force behind the legislation and, in fact, helped to write at least the House bill.
 The special committee desig- mated by the Executive Council lost no time in getting busy on the cam paign to defeat the legislation. The composed of President Green, Secretary Treasurer Meany and Vice Presidents WOll, Harrison and Dubinsky, engaged the services
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