The union times., 1947-11-29
Barry Asks Full Activity By Conn. Labor
Green Scores Taft On Initiation Fight
AF.L. President Says Ohio Senator's Policy Will Wreck Foreign Aid Program COP Campaign
 Propaganda Now Being Released

MllW dONSS, w 1O' Al A~ NOA dent William Green charged this week that Senator Robert Taft displays not "the slightest con cern over the alarming increases in the cost of living" and advo- cates a policy which would under mine and destroy the foreign-ald program.
 RIDICULOUS CHARGES''
 In an address before the fifth bi- ennial convention of the AFL's ln- ternational Union of Automobile Workers of America, MT. Green branded as ridiculous Senator Taft's assertion that the Presidents anti-infation program seeks to in- yoke ''tOtalitarian methods" in an effort to solve the nations economy problems. He said:
 Such charges are ridiculous. They are nothing more or less than cam paign propaganda. Realizing that the American people are naturally reluc- tant to see the restoration-even in part-of wartime controls, the reac- tionary strategists are brazenly trying to make political capital for the 1948 campaign out of the critical situation in which our nation finds itself.
 HIS TAX PROGRAM
 T challenge anyone to read Sena- tor Taft's incorporate statements on the Presidents message to Congress and find anywhere in them the slightest concern over the alarming and con- tinuing increases in the cost of living.
 Senator Taft is not worried about the high cost of living be- cause the wealthy interests whom he represents in Congress are not wor- ried about it. To them higher prices mean higher profits, already at a record peak. The only thing Senator Taft is concerned about is tax reduction-the kind of tax re- duction which would bring sub- stantial relief to those in the high income brackets and place the heavy burden of taxation on those least aDIe tO pays
 On the question of foreign aid, MT. Green said the Senator professes to be in agreement with the President while advocating "a policy of too little and too late, which would have the eventual effect of undermining and destroying the foreign aid program"
 We have found many instances of his underhanded cunning in the tricky provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act" !" MT. Green added.
 Calling upon labor to exert itself in the approaching election year, MT. Green declared that labor must face the fact that Senator Taft and his ''fellow stooges for big business today occupy a dominant position in the Congress of the United States"
 We must also face the fact" the AFL leader said, "that their monStrous creation, the Taft-Hartley law, will exert a more and more oppressive strangle-hold on our trade union move ment in the year ahead, making it ever more difficult for organized labor to protect the interests of the nation workers"
 MT. Green pointed to the recent Kentucky gubernatorial election as proof that labor, mobilized for the oc- casion, can and will succeed against the tory reactionaries. He said:
 Tn that election, the Republican candidate based his entire campaign on support of the Taft-Hartley Act The Democratic candidate, who had voted to uphold President Truman's veto of that law, sought to justify his action.
 'Faced with this clear-cut issue the workers of Kentucky, under the leadership of the American Fedora. ton of Labor, focked to the polls and administered crushing defeat to the defender of the Taft-Hartley Act. So may it be with all the apoIo gists for the Taft-Hartley Act in the l948 campaign.
 Lester Washburn, president of the United Automobile Workers Union keynoted the convention sessions witt an address in which he named the two major problems facing the delegates These, he said, are the need to elimi- nate from Congress those men who have let labor and the country down and the urgency of getting prices down to level where they are 1T keeping with wages.
 Washburn hit industry's contro over prices. He said:
 ''We have regimented economy today, controlled by those people who have the money to enforce it Industry is still telling us how much we are going to pay for the thing. we need through industry's contro of the price feld.''