Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-08-13
INSIDE
AMERICA
written by the Staff of
The CIO News

ecutor of labor unions, has
been sick for the past several
weeks.
At the NLRB, they say
Denham has serious case of
acute Indigestion.
Too much Taft-Hartley law
even for Denham?
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Chalk up a big election vic
tory for labor and the people
in Tennessee!
Ii beral Representative
Estes Kefauver soundly whip
ped the big Crump machine,
won Democratic nomination as
Senator. Gordon Browning,
former governor who broke
with Crump years ago, won
a hand-down victory in his
bid to occupy the governors
mansion once again.
The Tennessee voting wasn't
something that happened by
chance. Labor organizations
CIO, AFL, railway brother
hoods-plunged into the cam
paign, worked hard. They
rang doorbells, talked, held
meetings, got out the vote.
1t paid off in a tremendous
defeat for Ed Crump of
Memphis, who has held the
city and the state in his dicta-
torial hands for years and
years. (Crump once warned
the CIO to stay out of Mem
phis; but CIO grew to be a
powerful factor in the Boss
own bailiwick.)
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President Truman, leading
fight against the COP ma
jority, received only second
rate support from his own
party leaders in Congress.
Example: No Democratic
Senators were on h n d at
hearing of the Senate Bank
ing & Currency Committee with
Paul Porter-Harry Truman's
special expert on initiation
matters-came to testify in
support of price controls. Por-
ter was left entirely at the
mercy of COP members of
the committee.
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Actually, some of sharpest +
criticism of COP leadership
came from a Republican, He's
Senator Charles Tobey of New
Hampshire-and he thinks
people should have decent
homes.
Tobey - who heads the
Banking g. Currency Commit
tee-completely crossed up
the Republican leadership by
bringing out a vote in his COM
mittee against COPS anemic,
carbon-copy housing bill and
for the Taft-Ellender- Wagner
measure. His action forced one
of few good test votes of the
special session.
Senator Tobey roared angry
definance of special in
terests" operating against T.
E-W housing bill. you can
see them anywhere in tho
Capitol at any time" he said.
ToSey put the finger on a
trio of Congressman who have
pleased the real estate lobby
by scotching action on the T.
E-W bill. He named Represen-
tative Wolcott (R., Mich.)
Representative Gamble (R.,
Mich.), and Representative
Charlie Halleck (R., Indiana).
IF they are allowed to put
this (the fake housing bill)
over, what comes before the
Senate in the future will be
subject to the same high-bind-
ing members" Tobey roared.
HERE AND THERE: Senate
Republicans refused to permit
CIO officials to appear at COM
mittee hearings to voice
unions belief in need for
price controls Jack Kroll,
CIO-PAC director, telegraph
ed unions that Congress- ac-
tivities are ''incredible-they
have to be seen to be be-
lieved"; Kroll urged unions to
send delegates to Washington
not to lobby Git would be al
most useless) but to see how
Congress refused to act on
emergency bills American
Civil Liberties Union survey
shows civil rights being ignor-
ed more than at any time since
Palmer Raid days of 1920's
Textile Union snagged big
pay raises at two of the
south's largest mills; if past
precedents hold, other mills
employing 100000 workers
will get similar boosts Oil
industry's profits are up 800
over last year. Standard Oil
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