Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-12-10
INSIDE
AMERICA
written by the Staff of
The CI0 News

business lost the November
elections, and the defeat was
written in faces of industrial
lists at MANS yearly meeting
at New York's Waldorf-Astor-
ia.
NAM convention clearly re-
allied unions have won poll
tical initiative in m o n t h s
ahead. Delegates were given
detailed, and reasonably ac-
curate, summary of actions
and thinking of both CIO and
AFL conventions.
Experts told NAM: (1) you
can expect a fourth round"
demand of wage increases
next year; (2) you can expect
drastic changes in Taft-Hart-
ley Act; 90 you can expect
big improvements in Wage
Hour - minimum up to 75c
an hour better coverage;" (4)
social security benefits will
rise by 50% or more; (5) Ia
Dor political action will be
stronger in months ahead; (6)
there'll be big organizing
drive among White collar
workers.
Report wasn't one to make
NAM stand-patters very hap
py.
NAM had salt rubbed in It's
Election Day wounds my ed
itor Of Pathfinder Magazine
(owned by rich Joe Pew of
Sun OLD.
"You have q public della
tions problem of truly collos-
sal proportions, a problem in
finitely larger and more COM
plicated than the problem you
so courageousy tackled three
years ago." NAM was told by
Editor McMillen of Pathfinder.
Recalling NAM fight against
Wagner Act, against price
controls, against government
spending" McMillen warned
NAM that its program isn't
exactly popular today.
BittereSt pill for NAM to
swallow was reminder that
President Truman had used
public relations techniques ad-
vocated by big business--and
had beaten the corporation
owners at their own game.
President Truman had "im-
plicit faith" In the average
man; he presented facts
"truthfully, dramatically and
repeatedly" and he accom-
plished what NAM had want
ed to accomplish for itself.
NAM was also reminded
that candidate Dewey, the
white-haired boy of big busi-
ness, didn't use big business
advertising and selling tech
niques. In obvious reference
to Dewey, Editor McMillen
asked NAM delegates: Gould
you sell your wares simply
by repeating that your COM
pany was a good company"
one convention spectator
suggested quietly MANS first
job would be to bolster morale
Of NAM during Truman ad-
ninistration!
Frances Perkins, Secretary
OF Labor during the Roose-
velt years, had some anus
ing comments when she talk
ed to Labor Departments an
nual Conference on State La
Dor Legislation recently.
Miss Perkins - now men,
Der of Civil Service Commis-
sion - noted wryly that an
expert" had suggested use of
psychiatrists in labor manage
men relations.
II can just imagine a union
committee coming in to talk
over a problem with the en-
ployer," she said, "and then
being told: Why don't you dis
cuss that problem with our
psychiatrist?' Miss Perkins
chuckled.
CLOS Executive Board,
meeting after Portland con-
vention voted two strong res
olutions in defense of Amer
leans civil rights.
Board called on 8lst Con-
gress to dissolve House I'm
American Activities Commit
tee. CIO leaders said commit
tee record is one Of consistent
misuses of Congressional pow
er for political purposes"
Board also demanded nor
NAL protection Of due process
Of law for persons investigst-
ed under government loyal
ty program.
loyalty procedures, at
first confined to government
workers, are now moving into
private industries, particular
ly those working on defense