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Friday, Moy 25, 1956
Huge Organizing Drive In
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South Aim Of ILGWU
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late, and so far hasn’t indi-
cated what tack his campaign
will take. It is known that he
doesn’t approve of Wilson,
however.
Moore, who made the only
real investigation of the U. S.
Trust and Guaranty Company
failure, could extend that in-
vestigation in the office of at-
torney general, so he is very
His warning came after New
York Gov. Averell Harriman
had called on the Democratic
Party to take on the zealot's
role in pushing for civil rights
and social welfare legislation,
that "This is a time when only
zeal, not moderation, can win
the fight against intolerance,
and only the zealot fighting for
equality can win ;—i-- - -
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Democrats against the Shiver- 1 from the administration which
wouldn’t like to have that
IOWA JOINS PARADE
Des Moines, la.—Iowa is the
latest state to complete merger
of its two labor federations.
The Iowa Federation of Labor
and the Iowa Industrial Union
Council will hold a merger
convention here June 26.
ty Judge Ned Price of Tyler,
who was an active campaigner
for Adlai Stevenson in 1952.
For the Supreme Court place
which has no incumbent run-
ning, two associate justices of
courts of civil appeals are can-1
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ternational.
The young leaders, graduates
of the union's own training in-
stitute, will play a key role in
a new drive aimed especially
in the Southeast and the South-
west areas.
They and the older hands
that have directed the 445,000-
member union along its course
also will move to consolidate
the union's position in estab-
lished areas, with top attention
going to severance pay pro-
visions and overtime after 35
hours a week.
The union will seek also to
write into all its contracts a
minimum wage at least 15 per
cent above the existing $1-an-
hour Federal minimum wage.
The union’s program for the
next three years, as spelled out
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By SAUL MILLER
Atlantic City, N. J.—The 56-
year-old Inti. Ladies Garment
Workers Union will give top
priority during the next three
years to bringing trade union-
ism as a way of life to the new
areas in the nation where the
industry has taken root.
At its 29th convention here,
the 1,100 delegates gave the
go-ahead for a widespread or-
ganizing drive by increasing
per capita payments to the in-
major architect of labor unity,
and Jacob's S. Potofsky, Pres,
of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, sister needle trades
union.
Meany told the delegates the
"Gloom - Mongers” worrying
about the future of the merged
labor movement can lay their
worries aside. There will be
problems to be ironed out, he
noted, but that despite some
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against the getting ready to start cam-
nneen paigning. He has appointed a
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AUSTIN—Now that the Dal-
las Democratic convention, has
wound up strictly party activ-
ity for awhile—-at least until
the precinct conventions July
28—Texans are turning their
tions of the convention went to ted until he sees something in
the future of either party
which will hasten and assure
effective civil rights legisla-
tion," ire added.
veil of San Antonio is one
candidate. The other is Judge
Robert G. Hughes of San Saba,
a member of the Austin appel-
late court.
State Treasurer Jesse James
has opposition, from Dallas
County Treasurer Warren G.
Harding, Agriculture Commis-
sioner John White has two op-
ponents who filed at the last
minute, one being a man who
had worked for White five
years and who resigned and
then announced against his
boss.
U. S. Representative Martin
Dies of Lufkin has an oppon-
ent in Bill Elkins, Dallas, form-
er American Legion command-
er.
But the real interesting race
is that where Lieutenant Gov-
ernor Ben Ramsey is trying to
hold his job for a fourth term
against three candidates. Form-
er Lieutenant Governor John
Lee Smith, Senator A. M. Aik-
in, Jr., of Paris, and C. T.
Johnson of Austin are his op-
ponents. Any one of the three
would be better than Ramsey,
of course, but it is to his ad-
vantage to have the vote split
between three candidates.
hailed by Dubinsky
Citizens Councils, got in the
race late, and likely will sug-
gest that if he is elected he
will be able to overturn the
U. S. Supreme Court in some
manner. Curtis Hill of Dallas,
who was an assistant attorney
general under the late Bill
McGraw, also got in the race
campaign manager, Joe Green- __________________ appoee,
hill, Austin lawyer who was General J. Earl Rudder, seek-
formerly an assistant attorney ing election to the post in
general when Daniel held that which he replaced Bascom
office. “ ’
as the
by convention action, came
against a backdrop of new suc-
cess since the last convention in
1953 in extending the 35-hour
work-week to 97 per cent of
the industry under contract,
and pushing forward to new
record highs the jointly ad-
ministered health and welfare
funds, the retirement plans, the
health centers and its new,
successful venture into cooper-
ative housing in New York
City.
ILGWU Pres. David Dubin-
sky signaled the new drive in
the unorganized areas and the
new leadership coming to the
top in the union with a warm,
personal introduction of Elmer
Kehrer, the union’s Southeast
director, who spelled out the
.problems of -organizing and
servicing locals in the South.
But Dubinsky warned that
txtension of the 35-hour week
and especially the overtime and
minimum pay problems, along
with the job of obtaining sev-
erence pay for workers whose
jobs are eliminated by geo-
graphical shifts in the industry,
must be consolidated by the
next convention.
delegates heard also
Sleeping Car Porters, who
warned that the white citizens
councils represent a threat to
civil rights and the growth of
the free trade union move-
ment.
He warned that "Because
nither the Democrats nor the
Republican Party has done
anything to pass civil rights
legislation in ever 66 years, the
Negro is uncommitted politi-
cally.”
"He will remain uncommit-
ions and their similar ap-
proaches to both trade union
and social problems.
He pledged that "We need
not wait for any formalities in
order to work together for the
best interests of our member-
ship and for the entire labor
movement ... I pledge to con-
tinue our friendly relations and
cooperation and I have come
here personally to cement the
bonds of friendship and frater-
nity.”
The biggest assets that both
unions have in common, he
told the cheering delegates,
"Are not the' hundreds of mil-
lions that we control as trus-
tees but the spirituality, the
deep devotion of our people,
the consecration to an ideal,
that our leaders before us and
that we, in some small meas-
ure, try to inculcate into those
who have come in later.”
attention to the candidates for
state office.
The open governor's race,
where for the first time in 10
years there is not an incum-
bent governor running for re-
election, finds two leading can-
didates, a third dark horse or
unknown, and three also-rans.
Judge Ralph Yarborough’s
chances for winning the gov-
ernorshop seem to have been
heightened by the sudden real-
ization among Texas politicians
that the folks are in a mood
to erase the Shivers admini-
stration and everything con-
nected with it. The landslide
against Shivers in the conven-
tion has greatly strengthened
W. Lee O'Daniel opened his
campaign in Waco to a small
crowd, which shows that he
can't pack them in like he did
in 1936. He is making an ac-
tive tour of the state in an old
fire wagon, which he says he’s
going to use to put out the fire
in Austin. Actually, as any stu-
dent of politics knows, O'Dan-
iel started the fire when he
won the governorship in 1938
and started the conservative
control of Austin which has
lasted to this day, through the
administrations of O'Daniel,
Coke Stevenson, Beauford Jes-
ter. and AHan Shivers. Each
one of them has picked his
successor, in effect, either by
passing it on to his lieutenant
governor, or by endorsing the
candidate who succeeded him.
The attorney general's race
finds four candidates. The two
leading ones are District At-
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tensions and internal prob-
lems "We will not divide
again."
Turning to the problem of
the growth of the labor move-
ment, Meany declared "The
bigger our unions, the more
organized workers brought into
the fold, the bigger is our re-
sponsibility to the community
as a whole."
That responsibility, he added,
means thnt "We must see to it
that the small minority who in-
dulge in what is commonly
characterized as racketeering
is eliminated from the ranks
of the trade unien movement.
I can aswure you that to what-
ever extent it is possibe for
the national office of tire AFL-
CIO te bring this about, we
will de our part.”
In introducing Meany to the
convention, Dubinsky noted
that the ILGW had its differ-
ences with AFI, leadership in
the past but that always the
president of the AFL, and now
the presid-nt of the AFL-CIO,
was the spokesman of the labor
movement in the United States
and would continve to be so far
as the ILGW was concerned.
Meany assailed the new
Communist front drive for a
united front and scored the
"Smile” campaign, warning
that only when the Soviets
empty out their slave labor
camps and restore some sem-
blance of freedom and dignity
can the rest of the world con-
sider them suitable neighbors.
He scored also the French
role in Algeria and the use of
400,000 troops to "restore or-
der.” He singled out the French
barring of Irving Brown, AFL-
CIO Representative on an Intl.
Confederation of Free Trade
Unions Commission, from Al-
geria, adding that the action
constituted "a badge of honor"
that Brown can be proud of for
the rest of his life.
Potofsky, appearing as a fra-
ternal delegate from the ACWA
for the first time in 22 years,
hailed the great progress
achieved by the ILGW and
pointed out the similarities of
the problems faced by both un-
BEHIND THE SCENES.
By Our Austin Correspondent
Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D.,-
lll.) praised the union for its
excellent handling of its health,
welfare and retirement funds.
He urged employers and insur-
ance companies to endorse his
recent proposals for full dis-
closure of all welfare fund fig-
ures.
On extension of minimum
wage coverage, the Illinois
Democrat noted that labor Sec.
Mitchell last year had reversed
his position on extended cov-
erage and hoped that this year
the Administration would have
a clear position.
“I think the Secretary of La-
bor is a decent chap and he
would like to be a good Secre-
Ury of Labor," he said, "but
he is so hedged in with reac-
tionaries that he finds it hard
to move."
Mitchell, who addressed the
convention two days later, re-
plied to the Douglas comment,
declaring he considered the
Administration "Good Com-
pany" and was "proud to be
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