Show Inside Labor Fateful News Jobs Are Beginning to Disappear By Victor RIesel This is grim news but true and it wont won't do any good to look the theother theother other way Jobs are beginning to disappear Top executives of the nations nation's biggest manufacturing outfits have told me in the past few days they fear they'll have to lay off thousands in the thc next six months Stuff is just not selling in the shiny new stores which stores which opened or refurnished so brightly right after the war Little cities in Connecticut's industrial belt are so alarmed over hundreds of jobless they're calling emergency parleys to see what they can do for foY their people Looks like the times time's here for Mr Truman to sit down with business and labor leaders before this thing starts snowballing snow snow- balling There have been high strategy conferences in the east in the past few days between labor leaders and the congressmen also governors they helped to elect Suddenly this group no longer is counting on President Truman's automatically helping them and they're organizing to fight for control of congress Lewis Plans Grandiose John Lewis' Lewis new plans must be as grandiose grandioso as his well rehearsed rehearsed rehearsed re re- Shakespearean thunder for for his union now owns Washington real estate worth over including a headquarters and two office buildings one of which recently purchased houses his strange district 50 What's up Although Although Al Al- Although though Mr Truman planned to kill off the spy-probing spy house un- un American affairs committee in January it is now certain to get its full budget The committees committee's Rep McDowell tells me that the stuff stiff in the chambers chamber's pumpkin Is far more shocking than anything anything any any- thing that's been made public from them yet yet His group is keeping the data a close secret I guess this is what you call a police state Those capitalist anti proCommunists proCommunists proCommunists pro Com who run the C CI I Os O's electrical electrical electrical elec elec- workers U. U E. E union at abig a abig abig big Westinghouse plant in Wilmerding Wilmerding Wil- Wil m near ar Pittsburgh have called on the capitalist police for protection Seems that the leftists are being being be be- ing booed so vigorously by the membership each meeting meeting- that they need police to guard the union hall now The antiCommunist antiCommunist antiCommunist Com anti members have been receiving re receiving re- re guidance from civic- civic minded men who dont don't belong to the union Leftie Leltie Points slim Him Out So now whenever an outsider slips quietly into the meetings to advise the non-Communist non membership membership membership mem mem- the lef lefties point him out outto outto to the police who politely refuse him admittance for a new kind of ot strike the strike the safety walkout which will hit the steel industry because of Phil Murrays Murray's dismay at discovering while driving ing about Pittsburgh that there are areas where big mill fumes kill off oft cows and vegetation So strongly does Murray feel about the safety of his men that he has written Into the steel contracts contracts contracts con con- tracts the most explicit clauses giving them the right to strike if they believe their lives are in in- in Just a few weeks before the tragic Donora 20 miles mlles from Pittsburgh smog killed people there the steel workers struck the local plant and the company agreed to eliminate fumes inside the mill Theres There's a strike on now in a big company where a defective defective defective de de- de- de train is being used It mangled a man last week What Phil Murray fears most is the use Ul of fluorine in steel making U U. S Steel and hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of the big companies are gladly cooperating with the union Where they dont don't the will strike Murray to Call C CIO I 10 0 Murray Incidentally w will ll go goto goto goto to Washington this week and meet with his C CIO I 0 vice presidents presidents presidents dents behind closed doors to work out their demands on the Truman administration Some labor men are arc a little weary over hearing the president tell them he feels wonderful but has no real plans yet tongued Brogue-tongued carry cane ing ing- Mike Quill head of the C CI I 0 O Transport Workers union is no prude or He loves a lusty story and can mix with the boys in any pub But last week Mike got all his New York leaders to pledge notto not notto notto to take a drink for 10 days or so He wanted such a perfect battle against the ousted now-ousted Commie leadership at the union convention convention convention conven conven- tion that he was taking no chances on the leftists getting some of his boys drunk Now having won all points he plans plan s the biggest blowout for all th the e abstainers |