The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-15
Ike" Stevenson Will Talk
Before AFL Convention In n. Y.

ANGU 1OIth VII OOASSootNS w
the list annual ALL Convention
gathered today to hear an open
ing-day address by President Will
liam Green, who has indicated
the group will endorse Gov. Adlai
r. Stevenson for president.
Decision on a presidential choice
Is expected to be made a week
from tomorrow after the conven-
ton has heard addresses by Ste
venson and his Republican oppo-
nent, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The general will talk Wednesday,
and Stevenson next Monday.
The 752 convention delegates rep
resent some eight million ALL
members.
The AFL'S Executive Council
filed a report last night in which
Il denounced the Taft-Hartley Act
as a "dismal failure" and called
the wage-price control program
unfair to labor.
Green made it clear at a pre-
convention news conference that if
the delegates decide on presi-
dental choice it will be largely -
Il not entirely - based on the can
didates' views and their party
platforms regarding the Taft-Hart-
ley Act.
Stevenson and the Democratic
platform advocate repeal of the
Taft-Hartley Act, and a new labor
relations act. Eisenhower is
against repeal, but has recon-
mended revisionS to improve the
law without changing its "basic
principles"
"This is bound TO have an effect
on the delegates" Green said. He
added that they were waiting to
"see what Eisenhower has to say"
If the ALL Convention formally
endorses either candidate, it will
be the first time in ALL history.
The ALL in 1924 backed the late
Sen. Robert M. LaFollette, the
Progressive candidate. But the &C
ton was taken by a special COM
mittee - not by a convention as
q whole.
The AFL's committee to Gust
racketeerS from the ranks Of I'M
ions began an investigation yeSter-
day into the operation of some New
York locals which repeatedly have
ex-convicts as officers.
The Executive Councils report
said that while Congress has pro-
vided an effective wage control
program, it has shown complete
disregard" for its obligation to
maintain equally effective price
control.
1.-THE facts on the record" the
report said, make crystal clear
the conclusion that the Congress
has foisted upon the wage
earners a shoddy price control pro-
gram"
The committees report said the
old Wage Sterilization Board has
been "unjustly attacked in and out
of Congress" for its handling of
the steel wage dispute, and it said
the CLIO United SteelworkerS were
tagging and trying to catch up.
The report declared: Far from
being a leader in collective bar
gaining the steel union was found
to be retarding the progress of all
other trade unions. No new poll
Cies were created by the recon-
mendations (of the Wage Stabili-
zation Board) and no benefits will
be received by other wage earnerS
in America as q result of the steel
case"
The report made several COM
nnentS in the field of international
affairs, including these:
]. 1t urged that a united and re-
armed Germany be integrated in.
70 Western defense. II suggested,
however, that Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer be ouSted first because
''the workers have no confidence
h the Adenauer government"
3. The report, opposing Ameri-
can aid to Franco Spain, said:
"An arrangement with this admir-
Or and creature of the NaZi-FaScist
Axis can only weaken the world
democratic cause. diStort its pur-
8. Urging continued military and
economic aid to Western Europe,
the report said: at was unfortu-
nate that in the transition from
The ECA TO MSA the economic aid
aspect Of American assistance to
free Europe was pushed too much
into the background"