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Clo-AFL Merger Is Still
A Long Way In The Future
By PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—(NEA)—WideIy heralded peace
and unity talks between the American Federation
of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization
have run into the usual delays. A second harmony
meeting of the committee of ten—five leaders from
each group—was scheduled for Chicago early in
August. It has been postponed, indefinitely.
AFL's annual convention meets in Houston in
mid-September. Everybody will be busy with
electioneering in October. The CIO convention is
scheduled for Chicago in mid-November. So don’t
Jook for too much to happen on labor unity before
then,
The committee of ten is supposed to name a per=-
manent chairman and secretary, A two-man sub=
committee—ClO Vice-President Allan § .Haywood
and AFL Brotherhood of Boilermakers President
Charles J. McGowan—is supposed to draw up an
agenda for the peacemakers, But so far there is
nothing to report,
This is the sixth effort to heal the big laber split
that began when the AFL expelled ten industrial
unions in 1936, Earlier peace nmrovements were pro=-
posed in 1837, 1939, 1041-43, 1947 and 1948. All
failed,
This latest harmony movement began last April
when CIO President Philip Murray wrote the heads
of AFL, Miners’, Machinists’ and Railway Brother=
hoods’ organizations. He suggested creation of a
joint labor committee for united political and leg
islative action,
This met with a warm reception. Out of it grew
the first AFL-CIO peace talks, aimed at setting up
practical machinery to handle jurisdictional and
raiding disputes and special movements for organic
unity, But big mountains of problems still face the
ten peacemakers,
Who will head the greater, new, two-ringed and
one-platformy combined circus under a single tent?
Will William Green and Philip Murray have to
resign for some compromise ringmaster on whom
both organizations can agree?
How would this new head man be selected? Would
it be by popular vote of all the members of both
organizations? Or would a littie group of inter
national presidents get together and choose one of
“their own number to be “it"? :
What would the new organization be called? CAL
—Congress of American Labor? Or AFlO—Ameri
can Federation of Industrial Organizations? Or
something with a fresh slant picked out of a hat?
By far the knottiest problem that the merger ne
gotiators face is the matter of jurisdictional dis
putes, They are bad enough between local unions
within the two big organizations, though probably
less troublesome now than in some years past,
But when the AFL-CIO merger is up for con
sideration, the natural conflict between the for
mer's craft union organization and the latter's in
dustrial union organization must be resolved. Up
to now, AFL leaders have maintained the only way
there could be unity would be for the CIO hori
zontal unions to be absorbed by the old line verti
cal unions.
If this can be worked out some other way, the
advantages of merger are real. One big union
movement would be stronger and be able to throw
more weight around. AFL claims ov2r six million
members. ClO—following the expulsion of some
of its left-wing ilnternationals—may have some
thing over 4 million. The total is two-thirds of the
organized labor movement and something over a
fifth of all U. S. industrial workers.
MERGER WOULD STRENTHEN LABOR
POLITICALLY
One treasury would hold a bigger reserve on
which to rely for major union battles. Organized
labor is mow big business, A Treasury report on
tax-exempt organizations, based on 1946 inconre
tax returns, shows total labor union receipts from
dues and fees at $477 million. Receipts from busi
ness enterprises run by unions yielded $17,500,000
more.
A merger would cut down overhead. Both or
ganizations now maintain headquarters buildings
in Washington. They have two sets of offices in
most of the state capitals and major industrial
cities.
Both organizations now maintain educational de
partments, political action groups, publications and
lobbies. They may all work towards the same end,
but they duplicate each other’s efforts.
What a really united labor movement would do
to American politics and to collective bargaining
techniques are subjects that can only be speculated
on, A dis-united labor movement has given em
ployers a theoretical bargaining advantage, at least.
There is no immediate prospect for a really strong
American Labor Party, like Britain’s Labour Party,
But it could emerge in due time, through adversity.
Opposition to the Taft-Hartley Act has probably
done nvuch to bring labor unity as far along as it
has progressed this year, A bad licking for union
endorsed candidates in 1950 and 1952 elections
would meke the Isbor unity movemeni even
‘shonger.
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Shirley Lost Channel Fight,
But Will Reap Her Reward
Pretty soon now a girl named Shirley May
France will be back at her home in Somerset, Mass.,
picking up the threads of a normal, unheadlined
teen-age life she dropped for a while to make a
plucky try at fame and fortune,
Shirley” wanted to be the youngest girl to swim
the English Channel, an accomplishment this cyni
cal world is apt to tag with the word “stunt.” But
it wasn’t any stunt to Shirley, who tried two years
in a row against heart-breaking odds, And if the
money that success might have tossed in her lap
helped lead her on, like an enchanting pot of gold
waiting under the white cliffs of Dover, there was
a gallant reason behind it: She wanted to do big
things for her mother and father, her two sisters
and her brother, whose way of life has not been
plagued with luxury,
In the way of the young with a stubborn heart,
Shirley gave all she had to an effort which may
have been a fore-doomed failure. Nobody can do
more than that, Young horses are asked to run
only short distances; male fighters of Shirley’s age
aren’t allowed to box more than six rounds. In
contrast a girl who was not quite 18 gamely swam
her heart out in the world’s toughest waters.
We think Shirley ought to know that nobody
ridiculed what she did, They adnrired. her. And
when they saw the picture of Shirley crying in dis
appointment, which is aiso the way of the young
with a stubborn heart, they understood.
In the cruel way the world keeps rearranging our
hopes, the money Shirley may have nrade, had she
finally beaten the Channel, probably would have
shrunk to a fraction of her dreams because of what
is happening in Korea. We are not trying to sound
like Pollyanna when we tell Shirley that her failure
to reach Dover the way she wanted to probably.
saved her from a lot of other frustrations.
The Shirley May France who was a wide-eyed
schoolgirl of 16 when she first made the Channel
her horizon has gained a lof of poise, confidence and
experience by meeting the world. There may be
no more limelight and headlines in her future.
But Shirley’s bravery and determination will buy
a lot of success and happiness in her life, which
after all is just beginning,
Moscow's "Just Looking’
The Motion Picture Export Association has just
announced that the Russians have allowed its trade
mark to be registered in the Soviet Union. The
association admits, however, that this doesn’t mean
the Kremlin is ready to let the Hollywood in
fluence run loose In Russia.
In the last two years, Soviet officials have
‘screened” 59 U, S. films without doing anything
about it, Their new action, which includes a re
quest for more films to look at, may simply mean
the Politburo is lonesome for Betty Grable.
Congress Should Restore SIO.OO
Month Extra Combat Pay
It has been some time now since anybody has
referred to what is going on in Korea as a “police
action.” :
The foxholes there are just as muddy and un
comfortable as the one the American G.l's dug
back in what is now being called “the other war.”
When it rains, which is often, it is just as mis
erable as it was in Normandy and St, Lo. The sun
and the jungle rot and the “bloody nose” ridges are
just as relentless as they were at Guadalcanal and
Iwo Jima.
The scream of artillery shells, the whine of a
sniper’s bullet, bring on the same cold sweat and
are no less fatal in the hands of North Koreans
than they were in the hands of Nazis and Japs.
And who gets the biggest mouthful of all this?
The infantryman, The doughboy, the dogface.
The nicety of fighting under the flag of the United
Nations is a little bit lost on G.I Joe, pinned on
his belly while somebody else from north of the
38th parailel lobs mortar shells all over his neigh
borhood.
Combat is the infantryman'’s job, 24 hours a day.
And since he's doing that job, he is beginning to
wonder what's happened to the extra $lO a month
he got for being a combat infantrymran in that
“other war.”
Back in Washington they're busy with defense
figures that run into billions, and a 10-dollar bill
is easy to lose in the shuffle,
For that matter, it isn’t much money—except to
the infantryman. It's combat pay, and he’s in
combat, and he feels he has it coming to him.
“We're fighting for the same principles as the
guys in the last war,” a private on the Korean
front line told one war correspondent the other day.
“We're taking the same stuff as they did. Why
ain’t we getting the 10 bucks a month they did?
They've started giving those front-line G.l.'s
combat infantrymen’s badges now. So the foot
soldier’s firm belief that he’s been in combat all
along in Korea must be official.
Somebody better pass the word to the paymaster,
too.
1 believe in God and under God in human free
dom and in the American system that makes it
possible for men to achieve that freedom and attain |
their mraximum moral and intellectual potentiali
ties.—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
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In Cinematic Safire Of West
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD— (NEA) —Jack
Carson’s role of a movie cowboy,
opposite Ginger Rogers, in “Ille
gal Bride,” will have some of Hol
lywood’s western heroes squirm
ing. It's a broad satire of the
“they-went-thataway” set with
doubles performing Jack’s riding
and singing. When someone calls
him “Dragalong,” Jack replies:
“Smile, when you say that pard
ner.”
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Ann blyth returns to the stage
for the first time in eight years in
“our Town” at La Jolla . . . Bud
Abbott and Lou Costello’s next
will be “A. & C. in Alaska.” , ..
Celeste Holm hasn’t told anybody
but she's rehearsing a night club
act and plans to double between
her stage stint in “An Affair of
State” and a Manhattan glitter
spot. Dora Maugham, who’s Ar
thur Blake's writer, is spinning
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Milton Berle is steaming over
rumors that the postponement of
his second picture for Warners has
something to do with empty movie
houses that piayed his first, “Al
ways Leave Them Laughing*
Holding Ann Miller’s paw at the
Nat King Cole opening at the Mo
cambo, Milton told me:
“Look, so far my picture has
grossed $1,040,000 in the United
tates alone. I have 25 per cent
anq. I ought to knew what’s going
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Fox ordered Jeff Chandler to
shave his chest for his native role
in “Bird of Paradise” and now
they’ve outfitted him with a wig.
“My own hair,” he explains,
“doesn’t blow in the wind.”
Jeff joins the bare-chested set in
a sarong. “I show more of my
body and less of my mind,” he
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good Perkins. Perkins, not Pat
O’Brien, created the mana}gl"mhg
editor role on Broadway in e
Front Page.” . . . Marilyn Maxwell
is mulling an offer to do a Broads
way musical version of the old
Maggie Sullivan movie, “The Good
Fairy.” . . . Cnarles Boyer is all
smiles over his latest, “The First
Legion,” in which he plays a
Jesuit priest. No more “great lov
er” roles, he says. . . Burt Lan
caster and Harold Hecht are hud
dling on a follow up to “Flame
and the Arrow.” Not necessarily a
sequel, but another swashbuckler,
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are un-separated again and living
together at Malabu Beach. .. . Dr,
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The grapevine rumors persist|
that Warners paid Shirley Temple |
a wad of greenbacks to settle the
one picture commitment they had
with her. Somewhere in the lovely ‘
neighborhood of $70,000, I hear.
.+ « “Hollywood Reel,” my TV
feature newsreal about movietown |
with Coy Watson, returns to the
video waves i‘n S‘ept*ember. |
MGM’s billboards for “The!
Duchess of Idaho” do not earry
Mel Torme’s name but his cash
register magic has two other ma
jor studios talking contract. . .
The torch Bob Stack is carrying
for Irene Wrightsman eould light
up the night shots on Kirk Doug
las’ new picture. Kirk is her cur
rent steady.
PRINCESS AND THE
PAYMENTS
~ Errol Flynn is laughing up his
well-tailored sleeve at the rumors
of a bust-up in his romance with
Princess Ghika. The marriage, he
says, will take place when he wig
gles out of those big alimony paye«
ments to Lili Damita.
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A glamox ioll, Gordon Douglas
reports, was vomplaining that her
autobiography wasn't being -
moted by the publisher, “m”
protested the publisher’s represen
tative, “it's in every bookstere in
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serving a gray-haired woman buy
ing a racing form at Hollywood
and Vine, commented: “Mother
knows bets.” . . . Big reason for
Ul's frantic search for a Maria
Montez type: Maria's two oldies,
“Sudan” and “Arabian Nights”
are cleaning up all over the coun
try as a dout:le-})ill' reissue,
Humphrey 'Bo%art arrived for
work in “The ®nforeer” in a new
English bantam car and he
cracked: b
“Gable’s got one, Gary Cooper’s
got one. We're the middle-aged
hot-rod club of the Beverly Hills
rat Pack.”
Our Safety Education Division
of the Georgia State Patrol re
minds all of us that traffie higns
'and markings are not for motor
ists only, Three out of every four
pedestrians killed in traffie are
viplating an obvious regulation,
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