The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-27
Get Out OF Way'
Wallace Told BY
Matters u MON

New York (LPA)-To match up
the political strength of organized
labor with the economic strength
of the unions will require more Wig
orous measures than are now being
taken, President Max Zaritsky ad-
vised the national convention here
this week of the Hat, Cap & Mil
linery Workers lnt'l Union-AFL.
While calling for Independent la
Dor political action, along the lines
of New York's Liberal Party, Zarit-
sky severely criticized presidential
aspirant Henry Wallace's claim to
speak for labor. wallace talks la
Dor and acts Communist" Zarit-
sky told the delegates. "Unless he
withdraws from the present ad-
venture, labor and liberals will con-
denim him as an agent of betrayal
and disruption of their cause"
Mayors Of New York and New
ark, N. j., greeted the delegates.
Mayor William O'Dwyer of New
York was introduced by Zaritsky
as a man destined to serve the
the people beyond the boundaries
of New York" A similar enthu-
siastic reception greeted New
York's mayor at the convention OF
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers-CIO in Atlantic City last week.
Mayor Vincent j. Murphy of
Newark, himself an AFL building
trades official, told delegates that
residents of his state "bow their
heads in shame" because of their
spokesman in Congress, Fred Hart
ley.
Zaritsky, reporting on conditions
in the millinery industry, pointed
out to delegates that the high cost
of living had gravely affected sales
of hats. The rising prices have thus
hurt the union members two ways
by reducing the purchasing pow
er of their wages, and by cutting
the volume of work.
World trade policies directly af-
feet the headwear industry, the
union had reported. Since the wars
end, he said, there has been re-
vival of imports Of hats and hat
materials, which will become even
stronger when the new trade agree
ments are approved by Congress.
Conceding that such trade is very
necessary to world economic stabi-
lity, Zaritsky nevertheless propos-
ed several safeguards.
Denial of trade treaty benefits
to countries behind the Iron Cur
tain, where forced labor is used, is
proposed by the union. The union
has already protested with the
State Dept imports from Czecho-
slovakia on this ground.
Delegates to the convention heard
a lengthy discussion of the Mundt-
Nixon anti-Communist bill by Liber-
al Party Chairman Adolph A. Berle,
and the unions counsel, Louis
Waldman Emphasizing that he
spoke as an individual, Berle said:
81 feel the bill is not ripe yet and
needs some serious improvements,
but will be everlastingly damned
if | don't see why we shouldn't
have a pure food and drug bill for
politics as we'll as we do for food.
What goes into peoples heads is
just as important as what goes into
their stomachs."
The two speakers indicate these
changes which they'd like to see in
in the Mundt- Nixon bill:
for those accused of
being Communists to have an inn
partial hearing before board; IA
statute of limitations protecting
persons the CP; a clearer defini-
ton of Communism in terms sof
'subservience to foreign political
group and not ideology."
AFL President William Green
called for political action to defeat
the supporters of the Taft-Hart-
ley law, which already, he main
tanned, is breaking apart at the
seams" He urged the government