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CS. BP | eee vee nd el iat ll (Jone ee "The Office of “War Mobilization » Director! ‘Famine ; (en Lomi and Stabilization Director Fred Vinson, whe have pare | line WN TISIS Yielded to these disrupters and saboteurs of stabilization, ‘and still continue to go so, share in this responaibiity. 4 Vinson’s veto of the eight cent raise to raflroed worhrt * 7 ‘The War Labor Board sic refuses to rogue ral lowed thechan nths fo: S of more than a million members * In the mnfhe ¢ decision ‘the WLB took mon } affiliates, in convention at Buffalo, ja Yoophole tor d i formal recognition of porta | farm mendation of their executive board-—uanderground travel) Pay, wae GUSTY mes ot : pledge without qualification. They hour administration, but they steered clear of ave it as unanimously as the board flexible provision in the stabilization act itself which gi in behalf of such a large segment of them and the Byrnes-Vinson offices authority to “take ery timely and holds significance any measures neceasary to aid in the prosecution of the view of the present critical moment war. The fact that coal production was falling off and . manpower had been flowing out of the coal industry, was in faces a test. ght will mark another contract dead- ‘them not « sufficient enough-reason for a ruling. 0—— The decision giving the Anthracite miners the ridicu-— . At this writing more than 60,00 Toor raise of 82 ev a Se thracite mine m the ridiew ‘with at Teast the tacit epproval of , matical strpit-jacket, is further evidence of the board's whole situation is again in the hands policy. The very feast the WLB members could have done ‘Monday, from all indications, Lewis way to join with the four labor representatives’ ‘deman Lblown general strike of coal miners.- for a change. .- the railroad workers are'taking a. .. ° - . . : : -- The employers are responsible for the present situa . od ° tion by their insistence that profits go above all other | be occasions pointed to the justice of considerations, Their position dovetails perfectly with that ‘coal miners and railroad workers. of Lewis, for neither is he interested in furthering pro-- icized sharply the War Labor Board duction, placing his defeatist policy above all other con- siderations. If the employers and Lewis were interested ithorities for clinging to an cutworn e barns. See that would ge both un incentive te more taal outeat . - ‘gram WO an incentive to more ou a fer the enst seine tae pate and 40 @ corresponding increase in wages—a formula ve said again and again, Such adjust. that even the WLE would have to approve, 2°" by keeping the no-strike pledge and — Finally, the labor movement itself ts not absolved of ; e stabilization program. We regard responsibility; first because of the disunity in its ranks, and secondly because Lewis. utilizing this disunity, & able | ogram as absolutely essential for we flation would be most harmful to the to cultivate some support, when every union in the coun adjust-, should hold him up as an object of scorn. Isn't it Jo: OMAMOR ple in general, All re be made for the purpose of strength. . 1. Lewis who > Presented labor with the een ; “8 *° - flity for the failure of this program whlicans in Congreas who, jointly wi mocrats, scuttled the administration’s This is a clipping am, They have emasculated measures {4-1 -200°5, 7), <7, - Pa8e [See ° and at this very moment continue to % KUO hue? THE ‘WORKER hey engineered the notorious Rum! soak- pate z ‘am and are now scheming further steps clipped“ tS ine; they killed the President's §25,000 | Dovernnent nd greased <a a Roman noliday, S 43 wet con eee a tt | ‘ ee eT