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Show THE AMERICAN WAY Worker Pleads For ft iVrtd Labor Law Changes I 'yfj$0X Bj Geors PnkmJt&ik 'M Why are the metropolitan newspapers printing so little of the testimony of witnesses appearing ap-pearing before the House Commute Com-mute on Education and Labor? Can it be that the communist-infiltrated communist-infiltrated American Newspaper Guild has ordained that any testimony tes-timony unfavorable to redical union labor leaders shall not be printed in newspapers where its members hold the whip hand? At any rate the general public is being left with the impression that only "Capitalists" are appearing ap-pearing before the Committee and clamoring for changes in our labor laws. But such is not the case. On the contrary, many working men have testified and they have been equally emphatic in demanding revision of our labor la-bor laws. One of these, Douglas Dean, a shop worker of Niles, Michigan, on February 22, explained to the Committee that he had no personal per-sonal reasons for wanting to support sup-port Capital and Management in opposition to Labor, but was concerned that the team which had made this nation great, was about to be broken up; that he wanted that team of Capital, Management and Labor to be kept in action. "Each of these is a minority," Dean said, 'The only excuse for their existence . and for the team is for the benefit of all the people. We have .had too many examples in the past 12 years of the harm done to the majority when laws are passed to either benefit or restrain any of these minorities. We passed laws to benefit Labor (one member mem-ber of the team) and to restrain the other two members (Capital and Management). "So the whole team now is out of balance. It isn't pulling together and we're just swinging around in circles. The only way you can stop this is to get the team back in balance. To do that you have to take away some of the rights you have given Labor and restore some of the rights you have taken away from Capital Capi-tal and Management. "Now is the time to do this. There won't be any strikes of consequence this year. The unions un-ions can't afford them. They're broke But don't be lulled by this absence of strikes into thinking think-ing that Labor will solve its own problems. The labor bosses are trying to get you to believe that so as to soft-pedal much needed labor reform legislation. . . 'The union bosses don't tell put and out lies but their half-truths half-truths are convincing to the workers who are not deep thinkers think-ers or analysts. Compared to Lhese masters of propaganda and shapers of public opinion, indus-f.ffort indus-f.ffort t0 counteract this socialistic so-cialistic trend has been pitifully ineffective Industry turns out long-winded .articles that no one 7JH reaSLexcept, lhose in indus-iZWt'u indus-iZWt'u he w?rk?r who should read them and learn tho facts ?esi1 i beca"se they're too long. winded and not written simnfv enough for him to get in a hurry You may think I am evagger-fting, evagger-fting, but I talk with these working men every day. It is ?aJ't!??uWay they are being misled mis-led all because industry isdSSb and you men have put a law on bir bffthat Protts theZ fa-bor fa-bor racketeers and radicals. . I was glad to come here and tes- ,bcaus? 1 feel that unless the labor situation is corrected quickly, we are facing disaster ' 1 ma7 even lose my job for coming here, but I am 65 and most of my life is behind me. But thi-C?mJ!eJp make you realize the importance of repealing these minority-favoring obstacle! to the proper working of our : economy, I will consider it well worth the sacrifice." .T aCommittee member who ?f-d Duean what he meant in stating he might lose his job Dean replied: "Well, that's an un-union-like activity. I should have told this to the union b?" That would not have been an un-union-like activity, but nothing noth-ing would have happened? So because I came down here and commit this un-union-like activity activi-ty of talking to a committee of the Congress, I can be suspended from my union and that means the boss will have to fire me " That is a worker's testimony, not an employer's. Again I ask why doesn't this kind of news make the metropolitan dailies' Perhaps the American Newspaper News-paper Guild can answer that question. |