Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-05-27 | Page 16 | Claim of AFL Brings Retort

V CLAIM LAIM OF BRINGS RETORT P Pa Prompt retort came Friday from il a spokesman forthe for the Committee for Industrial Organization to the statement statement statement state state- ment in Salt Lake City by Dave Beck eck- eck noted noted Pacific coast American Federation of Labor chief that the C I O 0 is on on the downgrade and the theA theA theA A F L is on the upgrade Equally prompt was the retaliatory retaliatory tory claim that Mr Becks Beck's statement statement statement state state- ment was based on deep knowledge of national labor conditions and that forecast the eventual defeat of the young C 10 O by the old and established A F L in the epic epi of battIe-of battle of organized labor State Senator E. E M M. Royle RoyIe Utah executive secretary of the C CIO I 0 declared declared declared de de- Mr Becks Beck's statement Beck's statement is as inaccurate inaccurate inaccurate inac inac- curate as all the other pronouncements pronouncements pronouncements pronounce pronounce- ments of important A F L officials The CI Cl 0 O has has' gained in membership p I w since its inception and and- there is no reason to doubt that it shall continue continue continue con con- to gain Whereas Jack H. H Conners e executive ecu ecu- tive secretary of the local unit o othe of the od o of Teamsters rs for which Mr Mc Beck i is Pacific coast vice president insisted in insisted insisted in- in When Mr Beck makes a statement statement statement state state- ment he knows what he is talking about Hes He's one man whose wore word cannot be doubted He has the entire entire entire en en- tire labor picture of the country in his mind not a small part of it It Mr Beck flying from Helena Mont to San Francisco announced here liere Thursday that the A F L proposes proposes proposes pro pro- poses to bring per cent of labor labo laborin in Salt Lake City and all other fa far western states into its ranks We are making good progress I In Utah he asserted