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Saye te “54 UT CA ARRON ot — > op cota « Nd hope means TO oo High Lig i f . ©) Open t ee § |, _ C.1.0. Convention , , ene ole r= ] The convention opened quietly with little diecord in eve idence. ,Delegates are to consider problems of wion orgent- 900,000 gots re-employrent,es8 well es @ plan to obte Se , 000 ,00 at President Roosevelt extended greetings to the convention, /* seying thet because of the preas of his office he covld not de | present in pergon,. pbilep In his mesesce, read by“urreay to the eccompenirent of vociferous sheers,“r. Roosevelt said,"Amricen men end women on essembly lines,et machines ice work,on ferms and those directing production have almost Withovt exception,@one everything humenly possible to heip .our brave fighters @ cerry on ageinst ruthless enemies, . "Thet job is not yet one ,horevor, ve must aod I know ¥e walt, Keep turning out the weopons and meteriais needed by ovr hores and ed ones." Fa o-G ACreasing the ~orning session, Bishop Bernerd J. Dhell, of the Catholic srohdtocese of Chicego,terzed the Anericen ideel # “brotherhood of free nen," and cave out stronrmly for revision of the Little Steel vaze formuls, in mines, et counters, in off- b ighters ao thet the war my be shortened,lives aoved, end our boys returned st the eorliest possible moment to their Ov *I cannot refrein from saying,"the cleric esserted," thet lebor's derend for raviaton of the Little Steel fornule ie. both just and Imperstive. Gener Murray in his keynote addross to the opening session cheered the work of the CIO political action cor ittes, but added "We are not essenbled in session for the purpose of Seating our chests about PAC. We pleyed ow pert in Winne ing the election.* ° 'Temporory Sacrificet On were atabiliration, ‘urray seid labor hac "been come pelled due to the rigidity of the Little Steel formula to terporeartily meke ascrificar tn the intereataof ovr netion a whilat engesed in a prest were "It fe our hich purpose whilet struggling to reli«ve our~ selvea from the shactlea of bondege through the operntion of the so-called Little Steel fornula,to continue in the mainten- ance of ovr no-strike pledge." Re brourht delegetes to the seventh convention to their faat eheavine today shen he extended a reel olive branch to avu w MAIDA whe our i ae WheWUst AI Cn evaryue a Wee ws employers and called for revision of the Little Steel forrvuile liniting wares. ®ve heya no desire to quarrel] vith hueiress, JAN 29 1944, the “600 representstives of constitvent embers of the cone~ [66-336 * fie te 14 ran