The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-30
1913 - a YEAR

ace move. The Taft-Hartley-
lied NLRB stepped up its fight
against the Int'l Typographical Un-
ion -AFL, and in California Nat
Farm Labor Union-AFL pickets
were jailed. The AFL execu-
tive council endorsed most of Pre-
sident Truman's Legislative pro-
gram, and perfected the organiza-
tional plans for its new Labor's
League for Political Education. .
A new non-Communist inter-Am-
erican labor federation was form
ed with AFL participation. -.
Feeling it's oats, the NAM pro-
claimed that the lobbyists regis
tration law is unconstitutional.
Answering an attempt by the Gen
eral Motors Corp. to institute a
pension plan without consulting
the workers, the United Auto
Workers-CIO got a court order
restraining the company. Sec
retary of Labor Schwellenbach said
that in 1947 wage gains have been
ERASED by the spiralling cost of
living" as AFL, CIO and unaffili-
ated unions began to map their
"third round" wage drives.
FEBRUARY-The House pass
ed the "aid the rich" tax bill. {.
United Mine Workers President
John l.. Lewis revealed that mine
owners were reneging on their
contract, and refusing to pay pen
sions out of the industry's welfare
fund. +. CIO rubber, auto and oil
workers unions advanced 80 to
35c wage demands. +. All of la
Dor lined up in court with the ITU-
AFL, but a federal judge said that
the NLRB was within it's Taft
Hartley powers in getting an in
junction against the typos. ITU
members replied by voting a ST.
100000 a month defense fund. The
board denied bargaining rights to
AFL bank guards and news agents,
and it's general counsel, Robert n.
Denham asserted that he would in
sist that AFL building trades
workers go thru NLRB elections
to retain union security contracts,
altho no one questioned the con-
workers insistence that
they retain this protection.
Sen. Glen Taylor d., Ida.) said
he'd run on Wallace's ticket, but
leading AFL and CIO spokesmen
in the convention of
the anti-CP liberal organization
for Democratic Action
which denounced the third party's
plans. Labor urged the gov
ernment to stand firm in support
of the United Nations partition
plan for Palestine, and to protect
the rights of the Jewish people
there. :. After the World Fedora
ton of Trade Unions had refused
to act, the British Trades Union
Congress invited unions in all
Marshall plan countries to meet
and plan labor participation in the
recovery program. Both AFL and
CIO accepted. The Commerce
Dept said that corporation profits
for 1947 had been nearly double
the high 1916 figure. A member of
he Int'l Association of Machinists
won a "why | want a raise con-
test" with this slogan: Il need a
raise this year because would like
4 decent living same as Taft and
CIO President Muir
ray was indicted under THIS anti
political expenditures section.
MARCH-Inaugurating a station
n Ch ttan ooga, Tenn, the
[LGWU-AFL became the first un-
on to own an FIN radio outlet. j.. . +.
of the NY Stock Ex-
,hange, members of the United
Employes-AFL, struck
Wall Streets money temples. Sail
,rs between ships, Seafarers Int'l
Jnion-AFL men, helped out on the
picket line, which as the strike
vent on was increasingly subject !
ID to police harrassment. -. :.