The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Urge New Labor Law Require Unions,
Employers Sign Non-Red Affidavits

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| IUpholsterers International Union of
North America, largest furniture
union in the United States and Can
ada, through its general executive
board meeting here, went on record
today for inclusion of requirement
for anti-Communist and anti-KKK
affidavits by all officials of unions
and employers and management re-
representatives. in the new labor law
to replace the Taft Hartley Act.
In statement and brief approx
ed unanimously by the ruling body
of the 57-year-old AFL union and
forwarded to the Senate Committee
on Labor and Public Welfare, it was
urged that the new labor act:
/. Specifically legalize the 100
percent union or closed shop and
declare the supremacy of federal
labor law in interstate commerce
thereby superseding, in most of in
dustry, state antiunion shop laws.
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2. Extend the requirement for
the filing Of non-Communist aff-
davits by all union officers to APP
tply to employers, their associations
and professional representatives;
and broaden the affidavit to bar
adherents and supporters of Nazi
or Fascist doctrine, including such
domestic equivalents Of the Fascist
group as the Ku Klux Klan and
the XXX of Georgia, Inc.
3. Unions should continue to file
financial reports with the Depart
ment of Labor and make them
available to their members, but this
same provision would also apply to
employers and their representa-
tives.
4. Some registration and regula-
tion of union welfare plans is also
favored by the Upholsterers Union
with the addition Of required re-
port to the Secretary of Labor or to
a new Department of Welfare, but
the same regulation would, for the
first time, also cover private en-
ployer welfare and pension
schemes.
5. Continuation of 60-day notice
by the employer or union in ad-
vance Of any move to terminate or
modify a collective bargaining
agreement.
6. Establishment of a permanent
labor-management panel under non
voting craftsmanship of Secretary
of Labor to study and report from
time to time on all phases of labor
management relations, including
such new matters as guaranteed
annual wage plans.
Shorter Day Study Voted
As a basic measure against re-
curing unemployment, the uphols-
terers' board voted special re-
search project for the furniture in !
dustry in cooperation with similar
program authorized by last years
AFL convention to lay the founda-
tions for a possible revival of la
boris demand for 30-hour week.
President Sal b. Hoffman,, of the
UIU, as a delegate to the AFL con
drafted the report of the
federation's committee on shorter
work day which revived the discus
sion of the 6-hour day and the s.
day week as possible answer to
unemployment consider
ed as possible should be need for
such programs as the Marshall
Plan and increased rearmaments
Unexpectedly decline.
Permanent Political Group
Emphasizing the intention of the
union to seek, for the first time.
political measures when required,
the UIU board made its own l94S
political campaign committee a
permanent organization of AFL's
Labor's League for Political Edu-
cation, including a full-time legis-
lative representative in Washington
during the congressional sessions.
Board members i'm attendance in
,luded International President Hoff-
mann; First Vice President Alfred
Rota, Chicago; international Trea-
surer Il. Alvin Albarino, New