The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-05
Major Decisions AT 69th
Annudl AFL Convention
(By N. b. o. p. Delegates)

By N. B. o. p. Delegates)
Houston (LPA) - In record
short six-day convention, the Am
erican Federation of Labor spread
out for the nation and the world
its position on vast number OF
domestic and international issues.
Major decisions at the 69th an
nual convention were:
WAGES AND PRICES. Price
controls should be imposed at once,
with a rollback to prices as of June
%. Wage controls are neither nee
essary or advisable now. Wages
should be permitted to catch up
with the rise in living costs. Any
future wage stabilization must
provide room for correction of in
ter-plant and inter-industry in
equities and for increases based on
higher productivity.
TAFT-HARTLEY ACT. A top
objective in November will be the
election of a liberal majority in
House and Senate committed to re-
peal of the vicious anti-labor TIL
act, and to enactment Of progress
sive legislation.
LABOR UNITY. Need "greater
than ever before, but if negotia-
tions for a united labor movement
are to succeed, they must be con
fined for the present to the AFL
and CIO.
MINIMUM WAGES. Wage-Hour
act should be amended to raise
floor from present rs cents to 81
an hour. WaIsh-Healey act should
be firmly enforced to require pay
ment Of prevailing minimum wages
by employers taking government
contracts.
TOTALITARIANISM. All forms
Of relationships are opposed, whet-
her they be called Nazism, Ease
ism, Peronism, Falangism or Com
munism.
SOCIAL SECURITY. Benefits
for total disability, equal to old
age pensions, should be added; also
benefits equal to unemployment in
surance during temporary illness
or disability. Pension coverage
should be raised from present
$4,000 to $500 a year.
HEALTH INSURANCE. Sup
port reaffimed, and propaganda
of American Medical Association
denounced.
INTERN N Alto NAL RELA-
TIONS. Free countries of Asia
should be united in a defensive
agreement similar to Atlantic Pact.
Vestiges of colonialism and imper-
ialism should be removed. A single
Independent republic should be set
up for all Korea, with govern
ment democratically elected under
United Nations supervision. Peace
treaties should be negotiated with
Western Germany and Japan. A
permanent United Nations security
force should be established.
CIVIL RIGHTS. Support of civil
rights legislation and an FEPC re-
affirmed. Poll taxes should be bar
red by federal law.
FARM WORKERS. Legislation
to safeguard their right to organize
and bargain collectively reaffirm-
ed.
The convention also: Blasted the
phony Stockholm "peace petition
being circulated by Communists
again urged an end TO partition OF
Ireland; proposed that countries
getting Marshall Plan aid use some
Of the counterpart funds" to fin
ance democratic school systems
condemned "the practice of the
United Mine Workers District
50) of invading the jurisdiction OF
building trade unions and called
such practices "akin to methods OF
strikebreaking agencies; suggest
ed criminal penalties for employ
ers who bring in aliens illegally
sin the guise of agricultural work
ers or otherwise; advocated a
boycott of all products made by
slave labor; assailed the military
departments Of government fol
displacing civilian workers in navy
yards and other establishments
with men in uniform; condemned
the Postmaster General for cutting
mail delivery service and calleo
for restoration of full service.
The dirtiest campaign ever stag
ed by the reactionaires is ON right