Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-07-23
INSIDE
AMERICA
(Written by the Staff Of
The CIO News)

an English economist-Adam
Smith - wrote a good many
books designed to show what
made the worlds economic
machinery tick. Old Adam
has been widely quoted by
big businessmen and their
spokesmen ever since.
The other day = CIO re-
search official meandering
through the pages of Adam
Smiths '"The Wealth of Ma
tions" came up with this quo
tation (Which is just as ap-
propriate to ay as VIII e n
Smith wrote it):
"Our merchants and mas
ter-manufacturers complain
much of the bad effects OF
high wages in raising the price
and thereby lessening the
sale, of their goods both at
home and abroad.
"They say nothing concern
ing the bad effects of high
profits. They are silent with
regard to the pernicious eff
fects of their own gains. They
complain only of those of
other people"
Claude Robinson is an
opinion-poll man who does a
lot of work for the National
Association of Manufacturers.
Last year he had long ar
ticle in Look magazine prov
ing" % that workers like
the principal provisions of the
Taft-Hartley Act; (2) that
they'd been sold a bill of
propaganda goods by their
unions against TIL
Ever since, the NAM and
anti-labor Congressman have
been quoting the Robinson
poll.
Now comes another poll,
conducted among maritime
and clothing workers in New
York, by Stanford Margoshes,
a Princeton psychology stu
dent. Margoshes' poll proves
Robinson is all wet.
Margoshes found opposition
to principal sections of the
TIL ranged from 81 to 73 per
cent among workers inter-
viewed.
P. S. In a separate poll,
Margoshes found that only
8 per cent of New York work
ers interviewed thought that
Tom Dewey 'is friendly to
labor"
In case anybody asks you:
CIO has not yet made any en-
dorsements in the 1948 Presi-
Dental campaign. Whether it
will-or not - Is a quetsion
that may be settled in COM
ing weeks. But as of today,
there are no endorsements.
Labor delegates were out in
numbers at the Democratic
convention in Philadelphia.
They're responsible-in good
measure - for getting con-
vention to add to the platform
the strongest civil liberties
plank ever adopted by major
U. S. party.
Civil rights plank strong
ly endorse report of the Pres
ident's Committee on Civil
Rights issued early this year.
(CIO's Jim Carey was a Com
mittee member.)
Democrats also came out
flatly for repeal of Taft
Hartley Act - though plat
fom pl a n X was weakened
somewhat by loose words
about need for passing con
structive" labor laws after
TIL repeal.
Presidents call for special
Congressional ssio on will
make Washington a political
hot-spot in late July and Au-
gust (and if you don't think
it's hot enough without the
politics added, go there your
selfD
Do workers like unions?
The boys at Ford Motor Com
pany sang out the answer in
a flood of NLRB votes.
The question: Do Ford
workers want the United
Auto Workers to ask for a un-
ion shop clause in their new
contract?
The reply: Yes - s8,943.
No-1 ,214.
Election was biggest union
shop poll yet conducted by
NLRB. And like 95 per cent
of all such polls, union won
hands down.
Rep. Fred Hartley's head
lin h un { n G expedition
among New York store union
members has drawn some Bit
ter criticism from liberal
Rep. Arthur Klein, a Manhat-
tan Democrat, himself a
member of Hartley's House