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Show O GENERAL HUGH S. IJOHNSON y Jour: Washington, D. C. LABOR AND MR. LEWIS The attacks on John Lewis from some elements of labor, because he indorsed Mr. Willkie in the campaign cam-paign now closed, have no sweet taste. Mr. Roosevelt's claquers maintained main-tained that he is the only friend of labor. John Lewis said not and so, to them, that makes him an "enemy of labor." A worker who could swallow that must have been so tar gone In emotion emo-tion that he could be persuaded that black is white. The New Deal has depended upon Mr. Lewis more than on any other single laborite until now. Then Fiorello LaGuardia ranked him with the forces of evil. Maybe as politics, that is understandable, under-standable, but the back stabbing by ' leading lights of the workers can't be excused especially In the C.I.O. Never before John Lewis was ! there any full and effective labor organization or-ganization and collective bargaining in our greatest industries steel, automobiles, rubber, oil, electrical, lumber and shipping. Never, except ex-cept for John Lewis, would they ever have come. Other labor leaders so opposed it that John could only do it by seces- j sion and the creation of the C.I.O. He believed in protection and organization or-ganization for all of labor, the lowliest lowli-est as well as the aristocracy of labor. They didn't He parted company. com-pany. The result was an addition to the ranks of organized labor of I 4.000,000 workers and a tremendous J improvement in wages and working conditions for all workers. Exactly that was what I was trying try-ing to do in NRA. There is not a single advance in the condition of organized labor that didn't have its birth in the nest of the Blue Eagle the acceptance by industry of the rights of labor to organize and bargain bar-gain collectively free from the influence in-fluence of child labor the creation of a Labor Relations board for the settlement of disputes. Mr. Roosevelt says that the men who opposed that oppose him now. Well, John Lewis and this writer oppose op-pose him now, and we helped do that when to do it was such pioneering and battle against both reactionary employers and reactionary labor leaders that sometimes I felt I hadn't a friend on earth. i nad at least two. One was John Lewis. The other was William Green. It is sad to me to see these two men split today. In those days I never asksd either for a sacrifice of his position for the common aim : that was not made. I never asked ! either for help that was not given. Neither ever gave me a promise that wasn't kept. I can't say that those early efforts for labor had equal help from people who support Mr. Roosevelt now. His : secretary of labor sniped at it con-, con-, stantly. Mr. Wallace's organization poisoned the farmers against it i said agriculture should get theirs be-, be-, fore labor, and that higher wages j under NRA raised the price of overalls over-alls and cotton gloves. Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt himself countenanced a disloyalty disloyal-ty in the organization itself which led to its downfall. But here, as elsewhere throughout I his whole line, John Lewis fought , night and day with all he had to give for the common man in the ranks of labor-fought to victories that advanced ad-vanced that cause more in a few years than in all the years of the ab..r movement since its beginning. Le never led labor astray in his life. EMPLOYMENT CENSUS The United States employment service of the social security board is taking a sort of census of skilled workers to provide information on the availability of laborers for defense de-fense industries. The board announced that the enumeration and location of the vu.rirs is being carried on through 3 cspccally established regional of-ncts-in Washington, Boston, New Wk, Philadelphia. Cleveland, Chi-cJfi". Chi-cJfi". Birmmeh.nm m: i! n.a. City. A,', francsco. Seattle and Denver. rcaTh Ka?t fCW months the bus-ate t ,becn obtainine frm the s-te er,,plynH,r, servj com ST ? dttuiled '-bor market f u ,,Wmg number w s t,rkTs. wh0 re registered v-i i- b i f t,m,""ymrnt "-vices as "''"' ''-t in defense covers , 1 CnSe ind"stries, be' next fccodddyh? 'U for This material indicates the tvne exp td fr Whkh Edition ,h, 1 , ! eme'yed. In " -.tuen'stfatrhempiT vnce inform-T 0 have ad" bor Z" I0" 00 Potential la- Pation thri rcSt"" u CCU-of CCU-of Jobs wh.ch y n kind badd'-ity inKir; have Planned anS "S? l mini un- workers tl enCeSSary moven. vingr:rrso;Ktoanother |