Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-30
INSIDE
AMERICA
written by the Staff of
The CIO News


been looking around for some
cheerful news notes. Read 'em
and say Murray:
Senator Jim Murray, of
Montana, one of the Senate's
staunchest democrats with
both a big ID" and a small
"d") sailed through his party
primary election by a better
than Al majority. The copper
interests are fighting him
tooth and nail-but the people
know their friend.
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What goes on inside Wash
ington during this hot month
of August is going to have
direct effect on what happens
everywhere in America for
months or years to come.
President Truman's call to
the 80th Congress to come
back to Washington and take
care of unfinished business
has struck responsive note
in the hearts of millions of
people who saw their needs
unattended by the Congress.
Republican lie d ship
which had taken initiative in
the campaign-Was set back
OH its heels by the call to Con-
gresS. Dewey spokesmen talk
of a rump session, say they
want their platform adopted
by Republican Congress under
Republican President. But a
bird in the hand is worth
SEVER dl III Tile DQSIl.
Clint Golden, former steel
union vice-president, has
moved in as a top adviser of
labor affairs to ECA Admins
traitor Paul Hoffman. CLOS
secretary-treasurer Jim Carey
sits on ECA's important Public
Advisory Board, Harry Mar
tin, president of the News
paper Guild, has been given
a years leave to do a job for
labor and America in ECA's
big Paris office. Ted Silvey,
secretary-treasurer of CLOS
Telephone Workers Organiz-
ing Committee, has moved
over to ECA as an executive
assistant to Golden and Bert
Jewell, of the AFL, the other
top labor man in the recovery
program setup.
CIO group has flown to
London for confabs with un-
ions in the European coun-
tries Meeting will discuss
means for European unions
to play a major part in seeing
that aid and recovery program
benefits workers, is 1907 eff
fective in each country.
Mike Ross, CLOS interna-
.ional affairs director-a mem
ber of the group going to Lon
don-had this to say:
"We-as we'll as many gov
ernment oficials-realize that
the ECA cannot successfully
fulfill its tasks unless Euro
pean labor is given a major
role in helping its develop
ment.
"One of ECA's pricipal
tasks is to help European
workers attain full, produc-
tive employment; an oppor-
tunity to develop a decent
standard of living; a chance
at both economic and social
security"
Henry Luce's Life magazine,
in effort to show how wig
orous and rich" American
unions have become, showed
that 80 biggest unions-AFL,
CIO, independent-have total
assets of $287 million. (They
didn't show it comes to SO a
member).
But assets of the 80 biggest
unions didn't equal General
Motors net profits - after
taxes-in the single year of
1947.
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HERE AND THERE: Isola-
zionist Rep. Church (R. ND
tried-but failed-to get Con-
gress to remove contempt cita-
tion against Joe Kamp, pub
Usher of race-hating, union
batting propaganda. Kamp re-
fused to tell Congressional
Committee where his "ConSti-
tutional Educational League"
gets its dough j., Rep. Gene
Cox of Georgia longtime foe
of labor, supporter of Taft
Hartley Act) was badly beat
en- up by fiance and two
brothers of secretary in his
Camilla, Co., office Rep
Fred Hartley of New Jersey
took enough time out from
profitable speaking tour to
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