Evening star., 1950-08-21
Printers Urged
To Be Active in
Coming Election
Green Calls for Aid
In Seating Congress
Friendly to Labor

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Shock troops" In a drive to elect
a Congress that will give Ameri-
can labor a new lease on life"
In speech at the TITUS 92d
annual convention at the May
flower Hotel, Mr.. Green warned
the union not to be side
tracked by its legal fighting with
NLRR General Counsel Robert N.
Denham whom he described as
"the dictatorial czar of Taft
Hartley administration"
The main issue, he said, Is re-
peal Of the Taft-Hartley Act
through election Of a Congress
that will protect the American
people from profiteering" and
give labor "a new incentive to
break all production records"
Senator Morse, Republican, Of
Oregon, a scheduled speaker to-
day, sent word that illness pre-
vented him from appearing. He
notified the convention that he
would speak tomorrow or Wednes-
day.
Ohio Election Stressed.
Mr.. Green, in urging that or
ganized labor get behind q drive
to "give Congress a good house
cleaning" described the Ohio
election this year as ''the Nations
chief battle-ground"
He predicted that If Senator
Taft is defeated the next Con-
gress will repeal the Taft-Hartley
Act.
Recalling that the AFL in par
ticular had consistently followed
a non-political policy in past
years, Mr.. Green declared:
But now we have learned that
if we are to maintain the simple
principles Of freedom and collec-
tive bargaining we must use an
other great power of labor besides
the power to strike. That power
is the mobilization of the political
strength that labor possesses. We
must act in casting our ballots on
the political field just as we act
in the strike field"
Gives Credit to Labor.
He gave organized labor the
main credit for having defeated
former Senators Ball, Of Minne-
sofa; Brooks. of Illinois; Rever.
comb, Of West Virginia. and Stew
art, Of Tennessee. He predicted
that we're going to defeat the
notorious author of the Taft
Hartley law, Senator Taft, next
November.
Attorneys for the TTU were to
devote the afternoon session Of
the convention to discussion Of
the legal battles between that
union and Mr.. Denham and
the NLRB. A major issue turns
on possible court moves by MIR.
Denham to enforce an NIRB
decision requiring ITU to drop
efforts to obtain closed-shop agree
mentS.
Reuel D. Harmon of st. Paul.
president of the union employers
section of the Printing Industry Of
America, suggested that the ITU
cooperate with employers in
a joint program designed to in
crease productivity in composing
rooms.
He noted increases in the cost
of type-setting and creation Of q
market for substitute processes
such as cold" type or typewriter
composition. Among factors that
have contributed to lowered pro-
ductivity, he said, include "re-
duced attention to sound produce
ton processes and sound training
of journeymen, a weakening Of
supervision, and failure of conven-
tional typesetting equipment to
keep pace, production-wise. with
increased costs of the equipment"
Joint Group Proposed.
Mr.. Harmon proposed that .
joint technical committee repre-
senting employers and the union
be established on a research and
advisory basis and on national
level to study conditions and
trends and to suggest programs.
The conventions Is main COM
mittees meanwhile began conSid-
Grafton of more than 120 proposed
resolutions and policy or pro-
cedural changes to be voted on
by the delegates.
These range from recommended
support of home rule and suffrage
for the District to major revisions
in the unions collective bargain
ing policies adopted at the 1947
convention and championed by
ITU President Woodruff Ran
dolph. One proposal, offered by
James j. Shea of Washington,
would require union officers to
file non-C Communist affidavits
with the NLRB.
AS head of the AFI, with which
ITU is affiliated. Mr.. Green de-
scribed that union as the shock
troops in labor's fight against the
expressions of the Taft-Hartley
Act"
He centered his attack princi-
paliy on Mr.. Denham rather than
the NLRB and said he was Ger
tain that Mr.. Denham does not
take orders from the NLRB but
has engaged in a running feud
with the board that would be far
cical if it were not so tragic"
Mr.. Green reported that organ
lied labor is better prepared this
year than in 1948 for united ac-
ton" in behalf of Congressional
candidates sympathetic to repeal
of the Taft-Hartley Act. He added
that voluntary camnaipyo cos,trin,,