Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-01-02

I States, headS or the ClO stated:
''The CIO remains loyal to Its
program, which calls for increas
ing living standards, controlling
initiation, repeal of anti-labor leg
islation, promoting needed wei
fare measures for the people, i'm
proving social security and
strengthening our structure of civ
il rights and civil liberties while
resisting totalitarian aggression
and infiltration.
Control Rents-Bvild More Homes
clo Asks Congress
/ After decrying the failure oi
the government and real estate
lobby to meet head-on the hous
ing problems of growing ma
ton, the C 10 called for these
corrective measures:
A. Rent controls should be ex
tended and kept in effect as long
as the defense mobilization effor,
and housing shortage prevent nor
NAL bargaining between landlord
and tenant.
B. All defense production areas
where immigration has cut the
vacancy rate to less than 2 per
cent should be designated "criti-
CAL"
C. The Defense Housing Act
must be strengthened to provide
new housing in critical areas.
d. Congress must take steps to
expand home construction to
million units year with 100000
new public housing units provid-
ed annually.
E. Congress should make avail
able long-term, low-interest loans
for middle-income families.
Blasts Mccarfhyism
Taking note of the increasing
threat to civil liberties from Nc
Carthyism and similar techniques,
CIO approved resolution con-
demning attacks against individ-
ual rights under guise of protect
ing the so-called internal secur.
ity" of the nation.
Labor is opposed to legislation
or Congressional activities which
threaten freedom of thought,
press, assembly or association,
and stifle individual thought and
experimentation.
cIo Renews Attack on
Taft-Hartley!
The CIO draws bead on labor
injunctions and will continue
fight for repeal of Taft-Hartley
It was pointed out that the Taft.
Hartley Act has encouraged state
court judges to resume issuing in.
functions against labor. While the
injunction provisions of TIL drew
special fire, CIO promised to con-
tinue working for the ultimate
repeal Of the entire act and the
substitution of labor legislation
based on the "enlightened poll
cies" of the Wagner Act.
Drive Against Wage Controls
Armed with mandate from
the CIO Convention, Walter Reu-
ther met with President Truman
and Roger Putnam to press for the
end of wage controls.
Reuther asked that wage con-
trolls be suspended Immediately
since effective price controls no
longer exist.
Behind this request lies a series
OF developments disturbing to la.
Dor:
l. Consumer prices have crept
up IL per cent above pre-Korean
levels and threaten to 60 higher
2. The present price controls
such as they are, expire April 30
and the incoming Administration
is pledged to let them die.
3. The Wage Sterilization Board
+ slow in granting increases, has
allowed to build up a backlog Of
$4,000 requests.
| 4. The Wage Sterilization Board
has been sabotaged by industry
members who walked off en- blot
after the miners, with Truman4
sanction, received the full SI.9(
increase they negotiated despite
the WSB's order holding the raise
to $1.50.
| In its resolution the CIO EN-
phasized that labor accepted wag,
stabilization only as a part of a,
overall stabilization program ant
that such a program no longe,
exists.
Mecarran immigration Law
Violates American Tradition
Inscribed on Statue of Iibert
at Gateway to America:
Come give me your tired, you
poor,
Your huddled masses yearning Z
breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teen
ing shore,
Send these, the homeless, tenn,
eSt-tost to me,