The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-06
lLGWu Outline Detailed Legislative
Program AS Taft-hart|ey Substitute

visions for settling jurisdictional
controversies and for protecting
the public interest in disputes in
volving public utilities and similar
industries are included in a detail
ed program of substitute legisla-
tion for the Taft Hartley Act pro-
posed by the general executive
board of the international Ladies
Garment Workers Union. The pro-
gram is the first of its kind offer
ed by major union.
The board approved the program
at a recent meeting in Miami
B h, Fla. Announcing the
boards action, ILGWU President
David Dubinsky said that his un-
ion shared the conviction of the
American Federation of Labor and
the CIO that Congress should
move for immediate repeal of the
Taft Hartley law, replacing it with
the old Wagner Act pending ap-
proval of substitute measure.
Points in Program
Cooling off" and fact-finding
procedures modelled after those of
the Railway Labor Act are propos-
ed for adjustment of disputes in
public utilities and other vital in
dustries. Other points are:
Establishment of a federal board
to settle jurisdictional disputes,
with the boards membership to be
drawn from a panel nominated by
the Department Of Labor after
consultation with representatives
of organized labor.
A ban on "unjustifiable" second
airy boycotts, as defined by Presi-
dent Truman in his State of the
Union message to Congress 2
years ago. This would rule out
secondary boycotts used to pro-
mote jurisdictional claims or to
compel employers to violate the
labor law.
Extension of the non-Communist
affidavits now embodied in the
Taft Hartley law to make it appli-
cable to employers as well as un-
ion leaders. To put additional
teeth into the affidavit require
nlent, the ILGWU proposed that it
cover all paid officers of unions
and that it include a forswearing
of Communism, Fascism and all
forms of tatalitarianism."
A similar extension to employ
ers of the present laws require
ment that union file comprehensive
reports covering their financial
status, the salaries of their Off
GERS and the rules under which
they operate.
Granting to employers of the
right to petition for elections
among their employees where "a
bona fide question" exists as to
which union is entitled to bargain
ing rights. The clause favored by
the ILGWU would be patterned
after that contained in the New
York State Labor Relations Act.
President Dubinsky reporte d
that the union board had voted to
send $4,000 to Labor's League for
Political Education, political arm
Of the AFL, to cover the per capita
1ues Of ILGWU members in 1949.
Organization Drive Voted
In anticipation Of the Taft Hart
ley laws removal from the statute
books, the board authorized ma
tionwide organizing drive intended
TO add $4,000 new members to the
100000 now in the union.
A gift of $25O,0O0 to the state of
Israel was approved by the board
after it had heard report on the
situation there from Charles S.
Zimmerman, also an lLGWU vice
who returned from
israel recently. The union supple
its gift with a loan of
$780, 900 to the Israeli government. |
An earlier loan of 81 100000 to the /
new state was repaid Dec. l..
A pledge of moral and financial
to the right-wing Social
SITS who are fighting the Commun-
SITS for control of the Italian labor
was voted by the board.