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. ~ iF sieepelimangn TE _ a “The Office of War Mobilization Director’ James ¥. 5 ° oe Byrnes and Stabilization Director Fred Vinson, who have. | f) e r ‘| S J S yielded to these disrupters and saboteurs of stabilization, ‘and atill continue to do so, share in this responsibility. : Vinson’s veto of the eight cent raise to railroad workers, JALLENGE |Pas = _7F Seine } ‘The War Labor Board also refuses to recognize reali- | ties, The bas: all iteelf to be mechanical ES of more than a million members ne i al * In the mibe decision the WLEB took months to find SO affiliates, in convention at Buffalo, |m loophole for 4 formal recognition of portal tc portal mimendation of their executive boasé—¢underground travel) pay, in the dusty files of the wage- be pledge without qualification. They hour administration, but they steered clear of the more ve it as unanimously as the board flexible provision in the stabilization act itself which gives* m in behalf of such a large segment of them and the Byrnes-Vinson offices authority to take ‘wery timely and holds significance necesaary to aid in the prosecution of the any Mieasures necessary aw view of the present critical moment war. The fact that coal production was falling off and | pain faces a teat. ‘manpower had been flowing out of the coal industry, was | ight ‘will mark another contract dead- ‘to them not sufficient enough-reason for a ruling. _ At this writing more than 60,000-_—_The decision giving the Anthracite miners the ridicu- is ie, lous raise of 82 cents a day, also because of a mathe- be with at feast the tacit approval or matical strait-jacket, is further evidence of the board's : whole situation is again in the hands jojicy ‘The very least the WLB members could have done hy Monday, from all indications, Lewis was to join with the four labor representatives’ demand gii-blown general strike of coal miners. for a change. . ; 4 the railroad workers are‘ taking a ° . e ° j The employers are responsible for the present situa oe * e occasions pointed to the justice of considerations. Their position dovetails perfectly with that he ‘coal miners and railroad workers. of Lewis, for neither is he interested in furthering pro- iticized sharply the War Labor Board duction, placing his defeatist policy above all other con- pithorities for clinging to an outworn alderations. If the employers and Lewis were interested ne burns. _ + $n production they could have easily agreed upon @ pro- ad for a wage adjustment to enable aram hat would be both an incentive to more coal outpat with the cost of living rise. But we *” ® corresponding increase in wages--a lormu ne said again and again. Such adjust- that even the WLB would have to approve. mo by keeping the no-strike pledge and : Finally, the labor movement itself is not absolved of he stabilization program. We regard responsibility; first because of the disunity in its ranks, program as absolutely essential for we and secondly because Lewis. utilizing this disunity, is able afiation would be most harmful to the ta cultivate some support, when every union in the coun should hold him up as an object of scorn. Isn't it Jo common people in general, All adjust-. noli ‘ f fore be made for the purpose of strength a who presented labor with the Smith-Conna das nrngram ——— mwas PVA e : ‘@ * o ‘bility for the failure of this program publicans in Congress who, jointly with emocrats, scuttled the administration's |, of “a .. page / Sete ram. They have emasculated measures ['1: | 4-72. "* KD . ‘ LL -and at this very moment continue to | ; Date Le - J yy ~¢ 3 Clipped a @ seat o they engineered the notorious Rum! soak- (ram and are now scheming further steps Hine; they killed the President's $25,000 | = _ and greased th or a Roman holiday Saal Government pet, This is a clipping from ——— ee ee ne ee LRN opamp sephnhgpineg-gyependemgee- ne set Serd ciel tion by their insistence that profits go above all other | be | t ' . S3¢ ee