Evening star., 1951-07-12
U..N. Breaks Off Truce Par|eysUniom Demand
After Reds Stop 20 NewsmenPrice Control if
Going to Koesonq ConferencesPay Cwbs Stay
Green and Carey Tell
Congress Leaders
Law Must Be Effective

AFL President William Green
told Democratic congressional
leaders today that labor unions
will not and connot' submit to
wage ceilings without effective
price control.
Mr. Green attended a Capitol
Hill conference of House members
backing the Truman administra-
tion's request for strong anti
initiation controls. The economic
control measure is being debated
on the House floor.
James Carey, CIO secretary
treasurer. said the whole labor
movement" was behind Mr.
Green's declaration.
IF an unworkable controls bill
is made law labor will not support
wage controls" Mr.. Carey said.
The session was in the nature of
strategy meeting on how to save
the administrators wage-price
controls program from threatened
total defeat.
Wilson Also Attends.
Also sitting in was Defense
Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson.
Mr.. Green, Mr.. Carey, Mr.. Will
son and T. v. Anderson, chairman
of the Railway Union Executives
Association, all pleaded for
strong controls program.
Mr.. Green told newsmen after
ward he had stressed that the Ma
tion is facing a great emergency
filled with uncertainty. and that
it was up to Congress to pass a
reasonable controls bill"
Labor agreed to wage controls
and is submitting to them now"
Mr.. Green said, but we cannot
continue if Congress refuses to
pass defense production act
which does not give the Govern
ment authority to exercise price
controls in a reasonable and ade-
quate manner"
Today's session was the second
labor union leaders have had with
Congress members backing strong
anti-infiation controls.
House Vote Put OFF.
They have put off until next
week any final House vote on con-
trolls legislation.
The meeting with the labor
leaders was called by Representa-
tive SABBATH, Democrat, of Illinois.
He told newsmen afterward that
l74 House members were present.
Among them were a few Repub-
licans. Representative Javits, Re-
publican-Liberal, of New York
said he knew of II G. o. P. men,
bers who attended.
Mr.. Green told the legislators
they should turn down proposal
for revision of the Wage Stabiliza-
ton Board. The revision plan, ad-
vanced by Representative Lucas,
Democrat, of Texas, has been ap-
proved by the House Labor Com
mittee and is pending as a pro-
posed amendment to the controls
bill.
IF adopted it will render the
Wage Sterilization Board useless, I"
Mr.. Green declared.
The Lucas plan would limit the
Wage Boards authority to deal
with labor disputes, and would
give the public members a ma
jority of the total representation.
Might Withdraw Again.
AS presently constituted, labor,
industry and the public have equal
representation on the board.
Labor stymied the wage stabili-
zation program for two months
last spring by pulling it's members
off the Wage Board in protest
against the way mobilization poll
cies were being carried out.
Today's statements by Mr..
Green and Mr.. Carey carried the
possible implication that labor
again would quit the Wage Board
if Congress fails to enact a con-
trolls law strong enough to satisfy
the unions.
Any such walkout probably
would be accompanied by labor's
pulling its representatives out of
top advisory positions in mobiliza-
ton agencies.
Unions won greater representa-
ton in the agencies as part of a
compromise settlement with Pres
ident Truman ending last springs
labor boycott of the mobilization
program.
A House vote seemed possible
(See CONTROLS, Page A-2.)