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

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courts and police. The AFL
painters union in Hartford, Conn.
was charged with violating TIL
because it bought ads saying it
didn't like Sen. Taft. Harry
Bridges was dismissed as northern
Calf. CIO director for his consist
ent defiance Of national CIO policy
on Wallace and the Marshall plan.
lCIO reminded it's IUCs thruout the
country that they should support
ICIO policies. In its first report,
a joint congressional committee
that was set up to "impartially'
assess management relations
under the Taft Hartley law, white
washed the anti-union statute. That
same week, the House decreed a
25@6 cut in Labor Dept funds. The
NLRB reported that in the first
six months of TIL 1880 cases
were submitted to it-more than
in any full year Of the Wagner act.
i. Ruling on the Murray case,
a federal judge declared the TIL
political expenditures ban uncon-
stitutional. John l.. Lewis ask
ed the public to support the miners
demands for opening the pension
fund as the coal diggers walked
out. AFL President William
Green led off in the fight to defeat
Sen. McKellar's attempt to deprive
unions in IVA of collective bar
gaining rights. Congress at the
last minute passed a compromise
rent control extension bill.
Railway Labor's Political League,
uniting AFL and unaffiliated rail
road unions issued the first big
batch of endorsements for the Nov
ember elections. Some union heads
began wondering if President Tru-
man could be reelected and declar-
ed for Gen. Eisenhower as Demo-
cratic presidential nominee. :.
AFL and CIO unions appealed to
Italian workers to reject the Com
munists' bid for power in the pend
ing elections. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics said that the Jan
uary-February price drop was
over, and initiation was "back to
normal again.
APRIL-The United Steelwork
ers Of America-CIO demanded that
"big steep honor the wage reopen
ing clauses in the unions two-year
contract. Confronted with a
federal injunction the ITU-AFL
abandoned it's "no contract" policy
and sent proposed agreement forms
to its locals. An NLRB official
Dragged that TIL was very bene-
fical to lawyers. Congress pass
ed the Gearhart bill, depriving
over half a million workers of SOC
ial security law benefits. The
Senate okayed the long overdue
Taft-Ellender- Wagner housing bill. /
A veterans conference in Wash !
ington the previous month jolted
the solons into action. :. !. Republi-
cans leaders, even, admitted that
labor must be given a voice in
ERP administration, on the eve of
the Marshall plans passage in
Congress. The AFL Building
Trades Dept established its own
machinery for settling
jurisdictional disputes. :. Though
conservative Sen. Styles Bridges
Or, VT had agreed to be the
neutral trustee of the miners pen
sion fund, and the UNIV success
fully settled its dispute, Judge T.
Alan Goldsborough> slapped an in
junction and a $1,420,000 fine on
the union and President Lewis. :. :.
Another court, by a two to one
vote, threw out the Natl Maritime
challenge of the non
Communist affidavits section ofS
TIL. The NLRB agreed with USA-
CIO that Inland Steel must bar
gain on welfare plans, but condi-
toned enforcement of its order on
the anti-Communist unions lead
ers signing the affdavits, thereby
starting another test case.
Sen. Joseph Ball OR. Mimi added
TO his reputation as the Senate's |
one labor-hater by propos- !
ng to weaken the wage-hour law !
lnder the guise of an amendment T
the minimum wage to T
SOC. Unions had been pressing for
81 and a number of Congressman ,
we're willing to go to 75c. {
JAW-CIO President Walter Reut- q
Ter was seriously wounded in a O
murder attempt. I
MAY-"Big steel" flatly refused |,
o grant a raise to its employees. O
Little Steel" automobile and cleo s
rical industries followed suit.
JSA-CIO warned that in 1949, g
yhen contracts expire, both wage
aises and welfare plans will be A
INSISTED upon. On the west tc
oast, the Boeing Airplane Co. el
orced lam members to strike. y. A
he AFL Wall Street employees, %
nd the CIO meat packers went pr
ack to work on the employers OF
erms. Later, they gained some P
DnceSSlOnS. The AFL'S union eI