OCR Text |
Show Editorial Comment DAYTON, OHIO LABOR UNION The AFL Executive Council met last Wednesday with members mem-bers of the league and announced announ-ced that the league will not take a stand on the presidential issue, but would work for the defeat . of a congressman who voted for . the Taft-Hartley act. . - Green said, however, -that he personally favors Truman's election. elec-tion. If labor succeeds in getting out the vote, "a majority of working people will vote for Mr. Truman," he added. Green said the AFL had decided de-cided not to endorse any presidential presi-dential candidate because of its long standing tradition against such action. He said the AFL is confident of helping to elect at least 11 U. S. Senators. HENDERSON, N. C. TIMES-NEWS Nine Negroes picketed the Wallace gang in Birmingham and the newspapers report that the signs they carried were lettered as follows: "The Negro has accomplished more in the past 100 years than Russia has in the past 1000 years." "I'd rather live in the South and know where I stand than live elsewhere and have no standing." |