Salt Lake Telegram | 1947-04-24 | Page 3 | Senator Urges Labor Halt 'Make Work'

I Senator Urges Labor Halt Hall Make Work WASHINGTON April 24 INS n Sen Morse R R. Ore declared Thursday that soaring prices are ore adding to public pressure for drastic drastic dras dras- tic Uc labor Jabor controls and called on organized labor to take voluntary steps to increase productivity The Oregon Republican asked labor to 1 Get Gel rid of work make pro pro- grams 2 Eliminate all restrictions on production 3 Make it possible for more persons to join unions and thus move into productive jobs In union shops 4 Increase the thc number of apprentices apprentices apprentices ap ap- ap- ap prentices in skilled crafts Morse blamed both Indu Industry try and labor for Increasing living costs and accused them of the greatest profiteering in all history Morse declared that only voluntary voluntary voluntary volun tary action can avert further dislocations and vigorously denounced denounced denounced de de- both industry and labor Jabor Morse blamed featherbedding practices of unions the curtailing of apprentices and the barring of new workers from industry through the closed shop al along ng with industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial profiteering