Summit County Labor News, 1944-09-29

progress. But these liberal elements were not able to drive the Old Guard republicans from their entrenched positions. , < Can the Old Guard pass itself off as the New Deal? 1 . I think not. ' " We have all seen many marvelous stunts in the circus, but ho performing elephant could turn a hand-spring without falling flat on his back. - I need not recount to you the centuries of history which have been crowded into these four years since I saw you last. There were some - in the congress and out - who raised their voices against our preparations for defense - before and after 1939 - as hysterical warmongering, who cried out against our help to the Allies as provocative and dangerous. We remember the voices. They would like to have us forget them now. But in 1940 and 1941 they were loud voices. Happily they were a minority and - fortu and - fortunately - nately and - fortunately for ourselves, and for the world - they could not stop America. , * * * i - THERE ARE SOME politicians who kept their heads buried deep in the sand.while the storms of Europe and Asia were headed our way, who said that the lease-lend bill "would bring an end to free government in the United States," and who said "only hysteria entertains the idea that Germany, Italy or Japan contemplate war upon us." These very men are now asking the American people to entrust to them the conduct of our foreign policy and our military policy. , - . ' ^ What the republican leaders are now saying in effect is this: "Oh, just forget what we used to say, we have changed our minds now - we have been reading the public opinion polls about these things, and we now know what the American people want. Don't leave the task of making the peace to those old men who first urged it, and who have already laid the foundations for it, and who have had to fight all of us inch by inch during the last five years to do it - just turn it all over to us. We'll do it so skillfully - that we won't lose a single isolationist vote or a single isloationist campaign con contribution." - tribution." contribution." There is one thing I am too old for - I cannot talk out of both sides of my mouth at the same time. . * . . . This government welcomes all sincere supporters of the cause. (Continued on Page Poor)

Well, here we are again - after four years - and what years they have been. I am actually four years older - which seems to annoy some peo people. - ple. people. In fact, milliohs of us are more than 11 years older than when we started in to clear up the mess that was dumped in our laps in 1933. 1 We all know certain people who make it a practice to depre depreciate - ciate depreciate the accomplishments of labor - who even attacked labor as unpatriotic. They keep this up usually for three years and six months, but then, for some strange reason, they change their tune - every four years - just before election day. When votes are at stake, they > suddenly discover that they really love labor, and are eager to protect it from its old friends. I got quite a laugh, for example - and I am sure that you did - when I read this plank in the republican platform adopted at their national convention in Chicago last July: -- t "The Republican party accepts the purposes of the national labor relations act, the wage and hour act, the social security act and all other federal statutes designed to promote and protect the wel welfare - fare welfare of American men and women, and we promise a fcSr and just administration of these laws." - * * MANY OF THE republican leaders and congressmen 'and can candidates, - didates, candidates, who shouted enthusiastic approval of that plank iti that convention hall would not even recognize these progressive laws, if they met them in broad daylight. ' Indeed, they have persoiially spent years of effort and energy - and much money - in fighting every one of those laws in the con congress, - gress, congress, in the press, and in the courts, ever ^nce this administration began to advocate them and enact them into legislation. That is a fair example of their insincerity and of their inconsistency. The whole purpose of republican oratory these days* seem to be to switch labels. The object is to persuade the American people that the Democratic party was responsible for the 1929 crash and depression, and that the Republican party was responsible for all social progress under the New Deal. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery; - but I am afraid that in this case it is the most obvious common or garden variety of fraqd.

TTall the articles in the anti-labor giress advising labor to stay away f^om politics; "in its own best inter interests," - ests," interests," were l*id end to end, they'd provide the raw material for everyone who ±ver sung about wanting "a paper doll that I can call my own." For the fact of the matter is that tile anti-FDR crowd have given up bop* .of any real backing among the mik ipd file of labor voters. So they'll settle for almost anything - like the lady of Naples, who adver advertised - tised advertised in the personal column of a newspaper, reproaching a lover who had left her and asking him to show some sign at least that he remembered their great love, "if only by blowing ypur nose when you next pass under my balcony." * * * The tory press is so convinced the labor vote will go to FDR and pro progressive - gressive progressive candidates for Congress, that it directs nearly all its propaganda to reducing this vote, by seeking to dis disAC - AC disAC and all other'efforts to get workers to register and go to the polls. A recent analysis of the labor press by'. Fortune magazine confirms such 1 tory fears. Covering all sections of <3~lp, railroad and inde indeof - of indeof the references to Roosevelt in la labor - bor labor publications are' favorable, and only six: per cent unfavorable. -; As to Dewey, only five per cent of the labor references are favorable, and 88% are unfavorable. *uPP°rt kets, in tact, is irt' the so-called independent group, which includes company union papers and John L. Lewis's United Mine Workers* Journal. The reference to Dewey in CIO papers of all kinds are 100% unfavor unfavorable, - able, unfavorable, and even in AFL publications he draws no favorable mention whatever.

< POST JOBS HIT A call to businessmen to pull out the stops of company advertising through newspapers, radio, the public platform and pay envelopes in a full scale propaganda campaign against full employment, postwar aims of la labor - bor labor and the Roosevelt administration, Tias been made by Publisher Frank E. Gannett's Constitution and Free En Enterprise - terprise Enterprise Foundation. t . ' \ The foundation shares offices in New York City with Ganpett's other and better known baby, the Commit Committee - tee Committee - foe . Qonstitutipnal - Government,; ?The Gannett group refused, Sept. 12. to let the house committee investi investigating - gating investigating campaign expenditures see a list of its contributors on the ground ;that it is an "educational" and not a "political" organization. Leaders of private enterprise all over the country were introduced to the Free Enterprise Foundation's edu educational - cational educational propaganda against full em employment - ployment employment in a letter written on the law office stationery of former Rep Representative - resentative Representative Samuel Pettengill of In Indiana, - diana, Indiana, a renegade Democrat who be became - came became chairman of the finance com committee - mittee committee of the Republican National Committee in 1942. -* Businessmen are sticking their heads into a noose hung by "radical (Continued on Page 4)

PEACE SEEN FOR URWA Complete harmony blessed United Rubber Workers of America for the first time in nearly a year when various factions "smoked the pipe of peace" in the closing session of the 9th annual convention of the organization in New York City last Saturday to climax the most interesting convention in UR URWA's - WA's URWA's history. During the heat of the - convention Sherrnan H. Dalrymple and other ma major - jor major officers of the organization were re-elected by substantial'margins. The no-strike pledge advocated by:.Presi by:.President - dent by:.President Dalrymple, also"was renewed by the 400 delegates who attended the six sixday - day sixday convention held in Park Central Hotel. A dramatic conclusion to the Con Convention - vention Convention developed when George Bass offered a compromise- whereby the ex expulsion - pulsion expulsion charges against Pres. Dal Dalrymple - rymple Dalrymple would be dismissed in return for dropping the charges against all members of Local' 9 who had been suspended. It was recommended that fines should also be cancelled. After due consideration was given this pro proposal, - posal, proposal, it was decided to adopt it with the result that a raither tempestuous Convention concluded in a thoroughly harmonious fashion. The first-time that Sherman H. Dal Dal(Continued - (Continued Dal(Continued bn P4ge Pour)

1 he Political Action Committee ot Akron Industrial Union Council, working under the direction of Presi President - dent President F. B. Van Houten and Chairman Harley Treen, will endeavor to set a new registration record for the county | during the campaign. The campaign to get all ineligible voters to become eligible by register registering - ing registering is being1 conducted by sound truck, window cards, radio, advertis advertising - ing advertising and personal contact. The final opportunity to register will be at 9 (Continued on Page Four) OhioAFL For Roosevelt Tfie Ohio State Federation of La La,l»or,..l)y - ,l»or,..l)y La,l»or,..l)y ^convention action, is on rec record - ord record as urging &e re-election of President Ffoosevelt for a fourth | term. The indorsement, in the form of a resolution lauding his friendship to labor, came on the afternoon, of the third day of the sixtieth annual meeting and followed two hours of discussion. A standing vote on the question was estimated as 4-to-l in favor of the resolution. Opponents of the approval of the president contended that it was a breach of the AFL's non-partisan po position, - sition, position, while supporters of the indorse indorsement - ment indorsement cited the sensational gains of (Continued on Page Four)

'three years and six months out of every four years and expresses "friendship" only just before the election of the president every four years. He took a . slap at the anti-labor propaganda being fostered by Repub Republican - lican Republican industrialists by declaring that since Pearl Harbor the number of man-hours of work lost -by ' strikes has been Jess than one-tenth of one per cent. - \ . 'y- *VrVi' ' [ The address, which wad broadcast (Continued on Page Two) Akron Honors .«- - - Wa r Dead DeadTwenty-two - Twenty-two DeadTwenty-two thousand Akronites.' - most of them ' relatives or 'close friends of Summit county men and women who gave their lives'in the present war - braved frost-laden sfir Sunday night to attend impressive memorial services for the county's 600 war dead. " It was an impressive ceremony. A three-volley salute to the dead - and the sounding of ' "taps" by buglers concluded the ceremony after Bob [ Hope, screen* stage and radio star, delivered the principal memorial ad address. - dress. address. The mass memorial service was pronounced a huge, success. It had been planned and carried out joint!? (Continued on Page Three) i>.