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Green If he favored the picketing OF
restaurant If the workers there
did not want to join . union.
Mr.. Green replied that workers
outside q given plant have the right
to attempt to bring the working
standards to the levels of others In
the community. He accused Mr.
Lands of citing isolated examples
of labor abuse.
When questioned about wildcat
and jurisdlctional strikes, Mr.. Green
said he did not approve of them
but he thought that labor-manage-
ment cooperation was the bette.
way to deal with such situations
rather than legislation.
Argues With Mr.. Hoffman.
Mr.. Green engaged in an unusu-
ally heated argument with Mr.. Hof1
man. AT one point Mr.. Hoffman
asked the witness:
"I presume you read Phil Muir
rays (CIO presidenD statement
there is no justification for juris-
dictional striker"
That's Phil Murray's statement,
not mine" Mr.. Green rejoined.
After Mr.. Hoffman asked If Mr..
Green did not agree with the CIO
head, the AFL president said he did
not altogether and that whenever
one worker tries to take job away
from another. the latter is always
going to fight.
Mr.. Green told the committee that
there is hate building up among
the workers all over the country and
you are going to menace your free
enterprise system If you pass these
labor bills" He told Mr.. Hoffman,
you want to punish all the people
of the country because of some one
thing that some fellow has DONE"
Sees Two Strike Causes.
In his prepared statement Mr..
Green declared that imitation and
Government Intervention into la
bor- relations" are the
main cause of postwar strikes and
that none of the labor bills before
Congress proposes a remedy for the
evils.
He charged that the "real pur-
pose" behind the congressional
nion-restricting measures "is to
destroy unions and wreck collective
bargaining"
Before going to Capitol Hill, Mr..
Green reported there still is "a re-
mote possibility" that AFL-CIO
merger talks may be held despite
disagreement as to where the talks
should begin. He said "the rank
and file (of labor want merger
after sending letter to CIO Presi-
dent Murray that seemed to kill
all chance of labor solidarity for
some time to come.
Mr.. Green's letter stated Mr.. Muir
ray had declined the request" Of
the AFL for unity talks because OF
the insistence of the CIO that the
two organizations first get together
for a solid front against restrictive
labor legislation. The AFL wants
Organic unity" to come first. When
that is attained, it contends, CO.
operation on legislation will fol-
low naturally.
In another letter to Chairman
Taft of the Senate Labor Commit
tee, Mr.. Green asserted that mo
good purpose" could result from
q meeting between him and Mr..
Murray before committee members
to work out way of ending juris-
dictional strikes. Mr. Murray had
suggested that the committee "call
in Willie Green" for a settlement
of the problem. Mr.. Green pointed
out to Senator Taft that the AFL
is endeavoring to accomplish mer-
ger with the CIO.
Assails Legislation.
Mr.. Green told the House commit
tee:
"s Let me challenge the very
basis on which this legislation has
been presented to the country. II
is claimed to be remedy against
strikes. It is not. 1t is directed not
against strikes, but against the
process of collective bargaining
itself.
Labor leaders who led strikes last
year, A. F. Whitney, Joseph Curran
and Harry Bridges. complained Bit
terly to the Labor Committees yes
terday against what they called
antilabor legislation.
MIR. Curran and Mr.. Bridges, CIO
Maritime Union leaders who worked
together in the 1916 shipping strikes.
sent hot statements to the Senate
committee charging that present
"antilabor bills" are nothing more
than efforts by monopoly inter-
ests" to destroy labor unions.
Mr.. Whitney, president Of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
the man whom President truman