Labor Press Relations Guide Issued The International Labor Press Association, official organization of AFL-CIO union publications, has announced the issuance of a press relationis guide for labor unions. The guide is the first of a series of handbooks covering various as- pects of editorial and labor public relations work, according to Ken- neth Fiester, secretary-treasurer of the ILPA. Fiester described the new guide as a handbook "designed to help the local union president as well as his Administration Warned On editor; the volunteer chairman of the local publicity committee as "Urgency" Action well as the staff administrator or of "Jobless" organizer; and should be equally President John F. Kennedy's generally optimistic report on the nation's useful to small units or large ones, pace of recovery from the 1961 recession has been sharply challenged by craft or industrial, in village or the AFL-CIO. metropolis." While applauding the Administration's basic policies and programs He noted that the ILPA started AFL-CIO President George Meany told delegates to the AFL-CIO Economic with press relations, "because it is and Legislative C o n f e r e n c e in so obviously one of the labor move- Washington, D. C., last week that are working only part-time and ment's major problems." It is a the "great lack" in the Administra- when almost a million more who problem that can be solved, not by tion and in the country is a "sense want to work don't even bother to any one person, but by a coopera- of urgency" toward the "basic prob- look for the chance." tive effort within an organization, lem of jobs." The unemployed have become the Fiester said. Some 500 conference delegates Copies of the new press guide are from across the nation were advised being made available by the ILPA, that the labor movement has "a below cost only to AFL-CIO affil- solemn duty to remind the Presi- Death Takes iates, for 10 cents each, regardless dent - and Congress that the of quantity. Orders can be filled recession is not over and done with Vice President promptly as long as the first print- when four million Americans can- Robert R. Clark ing lasts, Fiester said. not find jobs, when other millions The AFL-CIO movement in California and the west lost one of its ablest labor officials last week when Robert R. Clark LABOR TAKES LEAD FOR NATIONAL FEPC died from injuries suffered early in Jan- uary from a two car collision in Los An- A new push in Congress for passage of an enforceable Fair Employment geles. Practices Act was launched last week with the AFL-CIO clearly leading Clark, a vice president at large of the the drive. California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, was assistant to the regional director of In a detailed and frank statement presented by President George Meany, the United Steelworkers of America for the AFL-CIO urged a House Special Subcommittee on Labor, headed by twelve Western states, chairman of the Representative James Roosevelt (D. California Apprenticeship Commission, California), to write a law with teeth Donald of the Steelworkers; Secre- and a member of the Los Angelles Housing to end discrimination in employ- tary-Treasurer Al Hartnett of the Commission. His dedication to the interests of work- ment and upgrading, whether con- Electrical, Radio and M a c h i n e ing men and women knew no limit. Clark trolled by employers or unions, and Workers, Labor Secretary Herbert served on the state AFL-CIO Executive in apprenticeship programs of Hill of the National Association for Council's Standing Committee on Civil every kind. the Advancement of Colored Peo- Rights and was an active member of the Los Angeles Conference of Religion and Roosevelt immediately indicated ple. Labor Secretary Arthur J. Labor. Prior to the AFL-CIO merger, he that the full House Labor Commit- Goldberg also backed the AFL-CIO had also been president of the former tee headed by Representative Adam drive. Greater Los Angeles CIO Council. Clayton Powell (D. New York) is Meany declared that the time is Clark was born in West Frankfort, Illinois, the son cf a coal miner, and planning to begin drafting a revised overdue to establish a policy by moved with his family through various bill in a matter of days. the enactment of an enforceable western mining towns. He joined the Other labor leaders joining with statute - dealing with discrimina- Steplworkers staff in Los Angeles, in Meany in asking for quick action in- tion in employment for the United 1940 when he was employed by Con- cluded States as a whole. solidated Western Steel. President C. J. Haggerty of Clark leaves his widow, Rose, in Tor- the AFL-CIO Building and Con- An effective federal law would rance, California; three children, fourteen struction Trades Department; Sec- ban discrimination against job ap- grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. retary-Treasurer James B. Carey of plicants because of race, creed, Services were conducted last Saturday in the De- or Los Angeles with interment at Holy Cross AFL-CIO Industrial Union color, national origin, age; it Cemetery. partment; President David J. Mc- (Continued on Page 3) Administration Warned BLS TO UP-DATE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX BASE PERIOD The U.S. Bureau of Labor Sta- period for general-purpose index on "Urgency" of tistics has alerted users of the Con- numbers prepared by federal gov- sumer Price Index that the 194749 ernment agencies. "base period" for measuring cost- Well in advance of the change, Jobless Action of-living changes will be changed the Bureau of Labor Statistics will (Continued from Page 1) to a 1957-59 base commencing with publish a full explanation of the "invisible men in America," Meany figures issued for January 1962. methodology involved in making added. "They have become statis- The change implements recom- this conversion to the new refer- mendations of the United States ence base. It will also, on request, tics instead of people. I say that's an Bureau of the Budget, which has make available to users of the In- attitude we simply cannot afford." advanced the three-year p e rio d dex, by means of appropriate pub- Warning further that the unem- 1957-59 as the new standard base lications, all information necessary ployment crisis is even more severe to link the index on its new base than the job statistics show, Meany free nations to stimulate trade "that with the historical cost-of-living declared that the stand-by anti-re- is mutually beneficial," he said. series. cession measures asked by Presi- Meany reiterated his pledge of dent Kennedy public works pro- "100 percent support" to the Presi- jects and withholding tax cuts dent on this issue, noted that Browni Orders State are needed "not for the next reces- America's favorable b a 1 a n c e of sion, but for this one." trade - the excess of U. S. exports Planning 'SpeednUp' Meany made public an analysis over imports - has increased from Reflecting an awareness of the by AFL-CIO economists of the em- $1 billion in 1959 to $5.5 billion need for coordinated state planning ployment "come-back" following last year, and added: to meet the challenge of California's low points in the last four reces- "Does this sound as though we mushrooming population, Governor sions. The analysis notes: were pricing ourselves out of the Edmund G. Brown has ordered ac- "The 1949-50 recovery saw unem- world market? Obviously we can celeration of work on the state's ployment drop by 30.6 percent in and do compete successfully - and development plan. nine months. In 1954-55, the jobless without sacrificing American wage Elton R. Andrews, planning offi- shrank by 26.1 percent; in 1958-59, standards." cer of the State Office of Planning, by 20 percent." * Taft-Hartley and L a n d r u m- said that as a result of Brown's During the comparable nine Griffin: "At the very least," Meany order, five new positions, including months span in 1961, the report em- said, "Congress should look into four professional planners, already phasizes, unemployment was cut these contradictions of the estab- have been approved for inclusion in only 7.3 percent. lished principle that it is in the best the Governor's 1962-63 b u d g e t, "We've got the higher produc- interest of the United States that scheduled for submission to the tion," Meany said. "We've boosted workers should be free to organize legislature on February 5. the rate of economic growth. But and bargain collectively." He made the disclosure in com- we have barely touched the basic * Federal taxes: He called for menting on a report issued by Cali- problem of jobs." "elimination of special privileges fornia Tomorrow, a non-profit or- ganization dedicated to greater pub- warn- . . . so all citizens pay their full The AFL-CIO President's lic awareness of the problems of ing on the nation's "number one" share under the law." * Federal aid to education: It growth in California. domestic issue was carried to Con- The report, "California, Going, gress by delegates from interna- seems "ridiculous," M e a n y said, tional unions, and state and city that we can't spend $1.5 billion a Going, Going.. ." called for empha- year for adequate schools and col sis on completion of an overall de- central bodies through personal velopment plan for the state as pro- contact with senators and congress- leges when our national income is "several hundred times as great." vided by the Governor's order. men. He added: It also called for other steps to State AFL-CIO Secretary-Treas- "We agree with President Ken- insure orderly future growth and urer Thos. L. Pitts and other labor nedy that his bills were good bills; land use development, to provide officials from California met with he still wants them and we still sup- adequate recreational and park de- the state Congressional delegation port them." velopment, and to coordinate re- to press for labor's legislative prior- * Civil rights: We need "at the source conservation and utilization. ities, which include the following, very least" a federal fair employ- "The report is a provocative cata- in addition to recovery measures: ment practices law. We are "confi- log of the many serious growth and * Health benefits for the aged dent," Meany said, that "men now development problems facing Cali- through social security: "Next to living will see the day when the evil fornia," Andrews said. full employment," Meany said, this of discrimination has been finally He pointed out that the State Of- is labor's "No. 1 project." He called extirpated from American society." fice of Planning was created by for passage of the Anderson-King * Consumer protection: Labor legislation s i g n e d by Governor bill, and not "some milk and water supports measures aimed at "all Brown in 1959, and that the Admin- substitute." forms of deceptions, price-rigging istration already has made impor- * International trade: The and outright cheating that now bilk tant progress in many of the areas United States "can't stand aloof" consumers of their hard-e a r n e d discussed, but he agreed that there from the growing movement among dollars." is still much to be done. -2 LABOR TAKES LEAiD FOR NATIONAL FEPC DI Refunid Notice PArnv cr% xu'hn unl1rarloA -fnr fmxn (Continued from Page 1) the influence of the mainstream of rel1SUII WIIU WU.1-KeU lUl LWU or more employers last year may would ban it within an employer's the labor movement, meanwhile ex- have had too much deducted work force after hiring, and it pelling in the same action the na- from their pay checks for dis- would carry "meaningful penalties tional leaders who deplore and fight ability insurance. If so, such per- for wilful violators," he said. discrimination? sons are entitled to a refund from Ban Hiring Bias "I think not. I think we can do the Department of Employment Action is needed to end discrim- more toward educating them if of anything over $36 deducted ination at the hiring gate, he de- they're in the federation, with their for that purpose, but the refund clared, because "the employers do own leaders getting broad AFL- must be claimed before June 30, the hiring: they choose the work CIO support toward the same end. 1962. force." "So equal opportunity as a mat- A Department of Employment Because employers control ter of federal law will help us." notice issued recently pionts out decisions on hiring, work assign- that employers were required to Meany pointed outthereare"there are "a withhold one percent of the first ments, promotions and so on, Meany pointed out Meany said, "I do not hesitate to few places in a few trades or occu- $3,600 paid in wages to each say that overwhelming instances of pai ons,a wheore thie uion itselfymexer; worker during 1961, but that in employment discrimination in this c?isesa majorevoice nemplsoymfent.' ca°sres whdere agn employee worked two or more employers dur- country are caused by the hiring Relatively few of these local unions for ing more than the $36 and other personnel policies of em- in turn follow a pattern of discrim- the year, ployers." ination, he said, adding it "is our maximum may have been de- "Having said this," he continued, hope that the law you draft will ap- ducted from his wages for dis- me say again, as I have ply to this problem as well." ducty france. "let also ability said in many other places, that dis- A union which discriminates, insurance. crimination does exist in the trade Meany said, stands in violation of nians applied for refunds last union movement." the AFL-CIO Constitution and the year and were paid a total of Meany said trade union members principles of the labor movement. in hecks averaling He said he hopes the proposed bill $4,416,742 in checks averaging reflect the attitudes of their com- $19.43. The excess payment can willhavethe ang o-fthe FL- munities, of their parents, of their will have the range of the AFL- be refunded only if the worker political leaders, of t h e i r news- CIO Constitution "and we hope you applies for it on a form obtain- papers. will make sure the law will also able at any local office of the De- While organized labor has made apply to apprenticeship programs partment of Employment. progress in this area, he added, "we of every kind. ..partment_of_Employment. have said repeatedly that to finish the job, we need the helo of the United States government. When the rank-and-file membership of a State Manufacturing 35 Percent Defense Related local union obstinately exercises its to na- 1961, for instance, the Department to be wrong, there is very little This state's contribution right the highest among we in the leadership can do about tional defense is of Defense issued prime contracts the states of the nation, Governor totaling $17,843,293,000 with more it, unaided." Edmund G. Brown pointed out last The AFL-CIO, Meany said, has than or week in reference to an announce- $4 billion, approximately 24 "only one ultimate weapon -ex- Western percent, going to California. pulsion of a national or interna- ment that the Space Age Industries and Engineering Exposi- "The second highest state was tional union. That's all we can do." in In the cases where unions had tion will be held San Francisco, New York, which received $1,832,- April 25-29. 913,000, or approximately 8 per- been expelled from the AFL-CIO The Governor noted that "ap- on charges of domination by cor- proximately 35 percent of manufac- cent. rupt influences, he said, expulsion in related to de- "The California figure does not was the only way to convince the turing California is to a national aver- include the additional millions of membership of a situation of which fense, compared age of 15 percent." dollars California manufacturers they may have been ignorant and received acting as sub-contractors which they would have tended to California's leadership into the space age was described as a signifi- for out-of-state industries, such as disbelieve from a normally hostile cant factor in the selection of the Boeing in Seattle, for instance. press. state by the Defense Department "Nor does it include the contri- But where discrimination may be bution which California's produc- resisted by a union's leadership and for the western exposition. Brown elaborated on California's tive capacity makes to the economic practices by "wrong-headed" mem- welfare of all the other western bers, it often is maintained by un- defense contribution as follows: in states. impeachably democratic processes, "More than a million persons Meany said. California are employed in defense "And even greater than this is or related industries, 400,000 of the future expenditures of the 'Misguided Members' them in ordnance, aircraft, elec- civilian space agencies, represented "Would we be better off," asked tronic and instrument industries by NASA which alone plans a bil- Meany, "to cast out these misguided alone. lion dollar expenditure in Califor- members and remove them from "During the first nine months of nia next year." -3 California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO 'lal 995 Market Street NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION San Francisco 3, Calif. Derelo 2,Calif. U. S. POSTAGE PAIDD San Francisco, Cal. RETURN REQUESTED Permit No. 7085

Labor Aids Civil Non-Union Products Folder "White Collar" The Amalgamated C lo t h i n g Swinging Pro-Labor Rights Progress Workers of America, AFL-CIO, rep- resenting workers in the boys' and The recent 2-1 vote for union or- Labor has played a prominent men's clothing industry, recently ganization by New York teachers is role in aiding America to win the issued a "western edition" of its dramatic evidence of a new swing greatest legislative advances in civil folder entitled PASS THEM BY. toward organized labor, according rights since the Civil War during The folder lists the major non- to Assistant Director Franz Daniel the seven years following the Su- of the AFL-CIO Department of Or- preme Court's school desegregation union brands and firms in the male decision. It has also participated in apparel industry, including several ganization. widespread p o p u 1 a r demonstra- firms located in California. These Speaking to Fresno-Madera Labor tions, such as sit-ins and freedom firms, ACWA points out, have "con- Council delegates last week, Daniel rides, to assert the right for equal sistently fought the efforts of their said there is a growing realization treatment of all Americans. workers to gain the benefits of un- among white collar workers, engi- These were reported in the 13th ion organization. Typical of such neers, and technicians that they are edition of The People Take The firms is the SPIRE shirt made by merely cogs in big companies un- Lead-the American Jewish Labor Grunwald-Marx, which had oper- less they have an organization to Committee's annual roundup of civil ated a union shop in southern Cali- protect their human dignity. rights advance in the United States, fornia before running away to Ari- "When this fact dawns on them," which reviews civil rights develop- zona." Daniels declared, "they begin to ments since 1954. Unions desiring to distribute this turn to the union movement as the Analyzing the publication's major folder to their membership may one organization dedicated to fight findings, Louis Caplan, committee obtain the quantity needed by con- for the dignity of all workers re- president, asserted that the past tacting the Union Label Depart- gardless of their skills, training, ed- seven years have been marked "by ment, ACWA, 26 Seventh Street, ucation or industry." an unprecedented thrust toward the San Francisco. Union Label posters Daniel noted that the various realization of equality of opportu- are also available upon request. changes in the union movement nity for all our citizens." over the years have not been willed Caplan listed the following gains by any man or group of men. They during 1961 as especially note- state legislatures of Illinois, Kansas were made necessary by the chang- worthy. and Missouri, bringing the total to ing times, he told council delegates. 1. For the first time since the 20. The merger of the AFL and CIO Supreme Court ruling, school de- 5. "Freedom Riders," hundreds of in 1955 came not because George segregation was accomplished with- college students, unionists, profes- Meany and Walter Reuther wanted out incident in Atlanta, Dallas, sors, ministers and other citizens it, but because a merged movement Memphis, New Orleans, Little Rock from every section of the country, was necessary to meet the economic and other cities of the deep South. challenged continued segregation of and political problems of an auto- 2. Congress extended the life of transportation in many Southern mated and atomic age, Daniel the Federal Civil Rights Commis- cities; stringent new regulations by added. sion for two more years; and the the Interstate Commerce Commis- Reviewing history, he said that Commission, in five comprehensive sion which followed these rides may the formation of the Knights of La- reports, called for sweeping execu- well have signalled the end of segre- bor and then the AFL had been tive and congressional action to ex- gated travel. necessary because of the rising in- tend civil rights in voting, educa- Despite these actions, Mr. Caplan dustrialization of the country. The tion, employment, housing and the cautioned, "This period has not CIO came in the 30's because the administration of justice. been without setbacks," and "These assembly-line factory w o r k e r s 3. Twelve new law suits initiated heartening signs have come far needed organization. by the Justice Department in South- more slowly than men of good will Daniel noted that while there ern counties brought to 22 the total might wish." may have been some complacency number of court actions designed Copies of The People Take The in the movement toward white col- to insure for Negro Americans the Lead are available at 25c each, lar workers in the 50's, a new vital- right to vote. $20.00 per hundred, from the Na- ity is now evident as the interest in 4. Enforceable fair employment tional Labor Service, 165 East 56th progressive, fighting unionism is on practices laws were passed by the Street, New York 22, New York. the rise everywhere. -4