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

can labor a new lease on life"
In a speech at the TITUS ed
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
3 thai will protect the American
people from prof1teering" 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 a 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 lsarned tha
if we are to maintain the simple
principles of freedom and collec'
tive bargaining we must use an
other great power of labor beside
the power to strike. That poweI
is the mobilization of the politica
strength that labor possesses. W.
must act in casting our ballots OF
the political field just as we &C
in the strike field"
Gives Credit to Labor.
He gave organized labor tn,
main credit for having defeated
former Senators Ball, of Mime
sofa; Brooks, of Illinois; Reyer-
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 1TU devoted
the afternoon session of the con-
vention to discussion of the legal
battles between that union and
Mr.. Denham and the NLRB. A
major issue turns on possible
court moves by Mr.. Denham. to
enforce an NLRB decision re-
quiring ITU to drop efforts to OBJ
tain closed-shop agreements.
Two of them, Henry Kaiser and
Gerhard P. van Arkel, told the
convention that the Korean crisis
and the possibility of another
world war make repeal of the
Taft-Hartley law more necessary
than ever. It would be suicidal
to impose that laws restrictions
on the productivity of labor and
the democratic ideals for which
we fight" Mr.. Kaiser said.
Sees Ground for Hope.
He said he saw some ground
for hope" that NLRB will "cease
tolerating" the efforts of Mr.. Den,
ham to obtain contempt convic'
tions against the union. He de-
clared that the board itself has no
ruled on specific issues and did no
give the union ample opportunity
to be heard. Mr.. Denham, he
charged, has gone ahead on hi
own perverted Interpretation o1
the law in an attempt to destroy
the union and Jail it's officers"
Reuel D. Harmon of st. Paul
president of the union employers
section of the Printing Industry o1
America, in a speech this morn
ing suggested that the ITU CO.
operate with employers in a joint
program designed to increase
productivity in composing rooms
He noted increases in the cost
of type setting and creation of a
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 produc-
tion processes and sound training
of journeymen, q 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 a
Joint technical committee repre-
senting employers and the union
be established on a research and
advisory basis and on a national
level to study conditions and
trends and to suggest programs.
The conventions Is main COM
mittees meanwhile began consid-
Grafton of more than 100 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
1TU President Woodruff Ran
dolph. One proposal. offered by
James j. Shea of Washington
would require union officers to
file non-Communist aff1davits