Evening star., 1952-09-19
AFL Sets Up Group
To Draft Substitute
For Taft-HartIey Act
By jones Y. Newton
Sior Sioff Correspondent

Dy jones I. NeWtOn
Saor Stuff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-The
American Federation of Labor to-
day paved the way for drive in
the next Congress for repeal or
radical modification of the Taft
Hartley Act.
The AFL convention approved
the setting up OF a special COM
mittee to lead the drive in the
83rd Congress. It called for q
new plan of attack on the Taft
Hartley labor relations law. which
the unions have tried unsuccess-
fully for five years to remove from
the statute books.
When the new Congress con-
venes in January the special AFL
committee will have drafted q
complete substitute bill for Taft
Hartley. 1t will be introduced by
members sympathetic to the
unions in both the House and
Senate.
new Approach 10 Issue.
This idea of Offering a substi-
tute for Taft-Hartley, rather than
going down the line for outright
repeal, is a new approach to their
problem on the part of the AF'L.
It is an admission by the labor
leaders that there are at least
some contructive parts to the
Taft-Hartley Act. AFL officials
believe the new idea will be sue
ceSSful where the old negative
approach failed.
All segments of the AFL will be
represented on the committee. The
group will consolidate the diver
gent views held by the individual
unions and develop a unified plan
for radically changing Taft-Hart-
ley.
The committee will prepare
dossier Of scores of cases, expert
ences of the unions. where pro-
visions Of Taft = Hartley have
harmed unjustly" the cause of
organized labor. These cases will
be presented to Congress along
with the new legislative proposals.
Convention Hears Morse.
The convention yesterday heard
Senator Morse. liberal Republican,
Of Oregon, alternatively praise and
criticize the labor policy outlined
earlier by Gen. Dwight Eisen-
hover. He said the Republican
presidential candidate made it
clear that he wants the Taft
Hartley law amended to what
ever extent is necessary to pro-
tect the legitimate rights of the
three parties to labor dispute
the workers and the employers
and the public"
Senator Morse, however, took
the general to task for condemn
ing Government seizure of plants
IN national emergency strike stu
ations without Offering any other
plan for coping with such emer-
gencies.
He said Gen. Eisenhower's
charge that the Federal Media
ton and Cancellation Service has
been woefully ineffective sis a
grossly unfair one"
'This week." Senator Morse
said, zone of the great industrial
statesmen Of our country, Cyrus
Ching, who incidentally is Re-
publican, is retiring as director
Of the Federal Mediation and Con-
ciliation Service. He has made
a great record in that job and he
is not deserving OF the unwar-
ranted criticism of the Mediation
Service which the Republican
candidate for the presidency
heaped upon him yesterday"
Comments on Taft.
Senator Morse, who has climbed
from the Eisenhower bandwagon
because of the generals associa-
ton with Senator Taft. Republi-
can. of Ohio. had something to
say on that score. He said that
Senator Taft now was running
the Eisenhower campaign. He
likened him to a "dazed" quarter
back who "is called back into the
game from the showers and starts
the team running in the opposite
direction from touchdown and
toward defeat"
AS of the moment. however,
Senator Morse told a news con-
ference. he thinks Gen. Eisen-
hover will win. AS of the moment.
he added, he might vote for the
general. But he refused to be
pinned down on that point. He
said on Election Day he would
exercise the privilege of all
Americans and cast a secret
ballot"