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Show CLEVELAND (Ohio) CITIZEN (Labor) says: UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES Since llic passage of the Wagner Act the common acceptance ac-ceptance of tlie term "unfair labor practices" has come to mean simply tlie many forms under which management has been guilty of imposing, unfair restrictions on unions and potential po-tential union members. We sometimes wonder if some of our people, perhaps in all good faith, are not as guilty of "unfair labor practices as the worst reactionary in the nation. There are many ways in wliich they could be guilty on such a charge. An outstanding example today is the politically ambitious ambi-tious labor leader who uses his position in a union to bring his name before the public for purely selfish reasons. Another Anoth-er is the man who permits an organization under his leadership leader-ship to engage in jurisdictional stoppages when calm, common com-mon sense could have solved the problem had he been alert enough to seeit coming. Still a third is the Ieaderor alleged Ieader-who has lost control of his organization, with the result that it is constantly con-stantly involved in wild cat strikes, work stoppages contrary to the agreement of a written contract or just to bedevil an employer who doesn't quite measure up to today's standards. Th worst of the whole lot, to our way of thinking, is the man in a position of authority in labor circles who bases his entire program of advancement for his members on the premise pre-mise that all employers are unfair, that they are out to break up the union, that they probably steal food from the mouths of the workers just to be dirty and that they will not agree to anything asked by the union, no matter tow fair it might be. What we must remember is that employers, even thoughdheir job is that of making rrtoney for their stockholders, stockhold-ers, are made of exactly the same sort of stuff we are. They eat the same food, drink the same drinks, enjoy the same ball games and movies and are just as deeply in love with their own children as we are. In other words, they are nothing noth-ing but human beings, trying to get along in world even as you and I. It gives us a pleasant glow when we ran into a labor leader who speaks well of an employer. We enjoy just as much hearing one of management give one of our people a pat on the back. And it seems to us that with such a spirit producing the results it has in so many of our leading industries, indus-tries, locally and nationally, all of us had better start looking look-ing for the good side rather than the bad. Let's not forget that we can never build by destroying. DAYTON (Ohio) LABOR UNION (Lab or) says: NEGROES GETTING WISE TO COMMUNISM .One of the most hopeful turns in the current labor situation situ-ation is the increasing evidence that Negro Americans are beginning to swing against Communism. The passage of a ringing anti-Communist resolution by the recent convention of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is the high note in this development. Hitherto, the Stalinites have assumed that the Negro workers of the country were in their pocket. This delusion has been confirmed by the close working work-ing relations of prominent Negro leaders and organizations with the Communists in such cities as New York, Detroit, Clevel and, etc. Now the oldest and outstanding national Negro labor organization in the country has denounced Communism as a threat both to trade unionism and to the cause of the Negro. Neg-ro. Such action will open the eyes of colored wage-earners, as few warnings have done hitherto. It has been the tragic fate of the Negro, in the last 15 years, that he has become the principal objective of Communist Com-munist strategy and cultivation in this country. A continuous and high pressure drive has been carried on by the most skilled propagandists in the Red stable to convince the Negro that his only hope lies in unity with the Communists and with Russia in a future social revolution. The Communists have seen in the 13 million American Negroes a great cohesive group of largely underprivileged men and women whose discontents make them a ready audience audi-ence for Russia s message. By setting themselves up as the loudest champions of Negro rights in such situations as the Scottboro case and the recent Long IsLjid Ferguson case, they have won many unthinking un-thinking Negroes to belief in Communist humanitarianism. Actually the Communists see the Negroes only as cats-paws cats-paws in their grand scheme to overthrow American democracy. democ-racy. What has helped the Commies in their progress has been the large number of colored intellectuals and artists who have been attracted by the promise of greater economic and racial quality through Communism. |