Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-09-17
INSIDE
AMERICA
(Written by the Staff of
The CIO News

state of Arizona recently voted
for the first time-thanks to
a Supreme Court decision
throwing out an old ban on
their use of the ballot.
Michigan's notorious anti
labor law, the Bonine-Tripp
Act, is dead as a doornail.
States Supreme Court rul-
ed that its compulsory arbi-
tration section was unconsti-
tunionai - since it force d
judges to act as non-jundicial
arbitrators.
And the outlawed no-strike
section applying to public
utilities and hospitals) is an
ESSENTIAL part of the entire law,
the court said. SO it gave the
whole statute the heave-ho.
Tripp-Bonine law was one
of many little Taft-Hartley
Acts" passed by states in 1947
and it's the first one to be
knocked out completely.
Hot summer months are US
ually considered the silly
season" - but it looks as
though Republicans are intent
on prolonging the season right
up to election day.
That's only possible expla-
nation of Republicans choice
of Barak Mattingly as head of
the COP labor campaign COM
mittee. Herbert BroWnell Jr.,
COP chairman and Dewey
lieutenant, issued a statement
that the st. Louis lawyer has
mutual respect and conf
dence" of unions and their
members.
BroWnell's statement was
too rich for blood of the st.
Louis CIO Council, which said
news of Mattingly's appoint
ment was received with feel
ing of incalculable surprise
and astonishment."
Mattingly, St. Louis CIO
group pointed out, was a
prime behind-th scenes man
during passage by Missouri
Legislature of an TIL b or
King-Thompson bill. Thomp-
son, one of bills sponsors is
COP candidate for governor
of Missouri - ardently sup
ported by Mattingly.
st. Louis CIO voices fear
that closeness of Mattingly TO
both Thompson in Missouri
and Dewey in New York may
lead to same sort of labor pol
icy on national scale as that
exemplified by Misso
bust-labor law.
Harold Stassen's ia bor
speech" at Detroit in behalf
of Dewey indicates COP
doesn't expect to get many
votes from workers.
Stassen poh-poohed effects
of Taft-Hartley law; tried to
convince his audience it's pop
lar with union members; and
went through motions of
promising he'd oppose any an
ti?labor laws!
Stassen steered clear of
mentioning Republican-fin
ed death of OPA and merely
placed high prices in same
category as sin; he's against
'em. And COP spokesman,
after admitting that "housing
is a sorry problem" made no
promises what COP might do
about it. (Big-shot Republi-
cans killed chances of Taft
Ellender-Wagner bill during
Both Congress.)
Memo to your calendar:
CLOS 10th convention opens
at Portland, Oregon, on No
vember %.
A CIO man back from a
month in Germany and Au-
stria sees cause for worry
about future success OF the
Marshall Plan, about recon-
struction, about lasting peace.
Victor Reuther, auto union
education director and brother
of Walter, talked with Ger
man union leaders and Amer
can military government Off
cials. He's worried because
to many American officers
and officials can't tell a Ger
man Democrat (and the UNI
ions are full of 'em) from a
"Nazi on the rebound"
German industry must be
rebuilt as a pivot for Euro
pean reconstruction, says Vic
Reuther-but if the old crowd
who supported Hitler keep
gaining control as they have
in recent months, there's
trouble and conflict ahead.
Reuther calls on military
government officials to get
wise to the situation, and to
consult closely on policies
with anti-Nazi, anti-Commun-
ist leaders of the big German
trade union movement (Which
is bigger today than it was
nre-Hitler \