Show Inside Labor Union Leader May Start Third Party By Victor Riesel WASHINGTON At At least one powerful labor leader whose outfit has members and a multimillion dollar treasury treasury treasury treas treas- ury is so fed up with President Truman's failure to deliver deliver- that he will viII demand a new third political party early in Decem Decem- ber His strategy calls for whipping a national machine into shape early in 1950 and the nomination of or hundreds of labor candidates for congress in the I following fall election His C CIO I 0 union already is powerful politically politically and and hell he'll publicly urge certain mammoth and influential A F L unions to join him in the new party to send a bloc of or labor officials to congress Intensity of labor irritation over Mr Truman's taking Florida sunshine at this time is 18 vividly disclosed by the cussing out he got in the highest A F L political headquarters One top chief there roared Truman ought to get to up here this is where he be be- longs Most Sensational of all the hundreds of laws the labor men are pushing in state capitals is isone isone isone one proposal in Massachusetts to set up a commission to in investigate investigate in- in any company firing firing- or trying to discharge or more of its Should this become law a state commission commission commission com com- mission would have power to summon witnesses and force the firm to produce its books and records for examination to see if conditions warrant the wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale slash Walter Reuthers Reuther's auto union isn't going into its propaganda war on Ford unprepared Competent Com Corn writers are turning out copy for 50 mill million on posters leaflets and booklets which the union will shower on the nation to explain its pension demands and and why it plans to call biggest strike to win this fight It w will Il be about a month be- be bore Phil Murray gets back into full swing and launches those white collar drives Hes He's re recovered recovered recovered re- re covered quickly from his ruptured ruptured ruptured rup rup- appendix but is required to rest Hes He's received most re reports reports reports re- re ports of his serious illness while beating Jim Carey in shuffleboard on the Atlantic City boardwalk Most traveling traveling traveling travel travel- ing labor chief today is the Teamsters top man Dave Beck who just a drive to unionize all gas station attendants attendants attendants attend attend- ants in the Pittsburg Ohio W. W Va tri-state tri area And because because because be be- cause Beck keeps swinging from border to border he ha hap hag all his speeches orders and parley di directives directives directives di- di wire recorded These are then sent to a printer put in booklet form and dispatched to organizers the country over so they can have have their exact instructions fro chief So You Think You Know The Labor Movement Did you Jou know theres there's an egg inspectors union another one for freshwater freshwater freshwater fresh fresh- water fishermen as well as asA asA A F L locals called the Masseurs and Bath Attendants Chasers Protective Russian Bath Rubbers Music Sightseeing Guides and Lecturers Lecturers Lecturers Lec Lec- Coffee and Tea Workers Licensed E Em Embalmers m b a l I m mer e r s Hair Goods Workers Music Publishers Publish Publish- ers Contract Seltzer Water Vater Workers Yorkers and the race racetrack racetrack racetrack track Ticket Agents Does Bill Green know what he really has stashed away in that giant A F L of his One big 0 OI CIO I O 0 union the Emil Rieves Textile Workers have invented a new political gim gim- mick It runs a school for political political cal action right in the U. U S. S senate gallery From Virginia and West Vest Virginia the union last week ga gathered a batch of students who vho will pep their local political machines when they get back from Washington Forty-five Forty of these undergraduates ates all mill workers were taken to the senate galleries to watch the filibuster which union leaders charged was the C CIO I 0 legislative program Then they spent three days in a special legislative classroom hearing such teachers as outgoing outgoing outgoing out out- going Secretary of Labor Johnny Gibson ace C CIO I 10 0 representative representative representative on the hill John Edleman Edleman Edle- Edle man and E EGA C A labor Ted Silvey The idea is to show the students how congress works and why its it's important to have friends on the floor Next week a new batch of students will come up from North Carolina Caro Caro- lina Quietly the big C CIO I 0 steel union has signed over contracts contracts con con- tracts with health and welfare funds in them including insurance policies paid for the b by the company Holiday Boom Boom When When a C I 0 O member is is called to jury duty from his work at the Hercules Powder Co plant in Bessemer Alabama under his new contract contract contract con con- tract he draws five days day's pay Also three days' days pay for time lost because of death in his immediate family The A F L has gotten Washington's Congressman Congressman Congressman Con Con- gressman Hugh Mitchell to in introduce introduce introduce in- in a bill in congress which would make the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November a legal holiday That's election day and the unions want it so they can get the vote out en masse |