Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-30
cIO & AFL
Raped At
Convention
Unions. Business Are
Being Denounced By
Wallace ProgressiVe's

WdII0ce Progressive
PHILADELPHIA (LPA) -
You might t h i n k that the
friendly witnesses who testi
fled at the platform hearings
of Henry Wallace's Progress
i've party had enough to do at
tacking big business, the Re
publicans, the Democrats, anc
"the war-mongers." But, in fac
they had enough time left over
to denounce the AFL and C1C
too.
Mrs. Judy Peterson Newman
a nice looking gal of about %
who uses excellent perfume
spoke for the Council for the
Advancement of the Americas
She considers herself something
of an expert on Latin American
trade unionism.
All "Dissentients"
The AFL, by its support Of
the Confederation of Inter
American Labor (CIT) is wreck.
ing the Latin American labor
movement, Mrs. Newman said
Latin American unionistS who
have joined the CIT are all "dis.
sentients," tools of Yankee i'm
perialism, and other nasty things
/ in her opinion. The young lady
admitted, however, that the CIT
has been very successful.
But, she said, it's this wreck
ing activity of the AFL which
accounts for the existence of the
Friends of Wallace movement
| in Latin America.
Under the encouraging eye OF
Lee Pressman, former CIO gen.
eral counsel, Gerald Schaflan-
der, state director of the Pen
Insylvania Progressive Party, at
tackled the leadership of the
AFL, the United Mine Workers
and then went to work on CIC
President Philip Murray.
Murray's Policies
He accused Murray of "col-
laboration with the leadership
of the steel industry" and said
that under Murray's policies the
United Steelworkers has become
corrupt"
Schaflander said that he was
director of education for the
Pennsylvania shirtworkers divi-
sion of the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers-CIO before going
to work for the Wallace party
Pressman seemed to be the
dominant figure on the platform
committee. Once C o m m / {
chairman Rexford Tugwell tolo
reporters who were quizzine
him to put their questions tc
Pressman, if they wanted con-
elusive answers.
Experienced newsmen who
covered the platform hearings
observed that at least one-third
of its rs members are men ano
women with a long background
in pro-Communist activity.
Unionists Listed
Among the trade unionists list
ed by the Wallace-for- President
Committee as delegates are
President A / b ert Fitzgerald
United Electrical Workers-CIC
and chairman of the labor divi-
sion of the Wallace Committee
President Harry Bridges, Init
Longshoremen and Warehouse
mems Union-CIO; Hugh Bryson,
president Natl Union of Marine
Cooks and STEWARDSHIP, chair
man of the Independent Progress
sive Party of California, and
secretary of the Convention
Rules Committee: President
John Clark, Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers-CIO; James
Durkin, president of the United
Office and Professional Workers
CIO and of the Greater New
York IUC, from which a number
of CIO unions have recently
withdrawn; Donald Henderson,
president of the Food, Tobacco
and Agricultural Workers-ClO
and a member of the national
council of the Communist Party;
President Grant Oakes of the
United Farm Equipment Work
ers-CIO, new party candidate for
governor of illinois; Morris Pizer,
president of the United Furni-
.ture Workers-CIO; Courtney
Ward, general secretary of the
Cleveland district council of the
Painters Union-AFL; Secretary
Joseph Lucio of the Allentown,
Pa, Central Labor Union-AFL;
Charles Collins, vice-president
of Local 6, Hotel and Restaurant
Workers Alliance AFL; and Ad-
die Weber, president of the New
Jersey Teachers Union-AFL.