1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9317 of the District Court for the District of 2100. By Mr. KEOGH: Petition of the New torch for earth's shadows; steel our souls Alaska·, at Anchorage, Alaska; to the Com­ York State League of Savings and Loan As­ with calm to bear our crosses, and fill us mittee on the Judiciary. sociations, concerning House bill 5336, the with Thy might for all future days. In 1109. A letter from the Secretary of the Farm Credit Act of 1941; to the Committee Navy, transmitting a draft of a proposed bill on Agriculture. the name of Mary's Holy Child. Amen. to extend the time for examination of 2101. Also, petition of the Fleet Reserve The Journal of the proceedings of yes­ monthly accounts covering expenditures by Association, Washington, D. C., favoring the terday was read and approved. disbursing officers of the United States Marine passage of House bill 6009, for the benefit of Corps; to the Committee on Expenditures in dependents or veterans of peacetime inci­ .MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE the Executive Departments. dents; to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. 1110. A letter from the secretary-treasurer, 2102. Also, petition of the Veterans of For­ A· message from the Senate, by Mr. Commission on Licensure Healing Arts Prac­ eign Wars of the United States, favoring the Frazier, its legislative clerk, announced tice Act, District of Columbia, transmitting passage of House bill 6009, to provide war­ that the Senate had adopted -the follow· report showing activities of the Commission time rates for service-connected disabilities ing resolution: 30, 1941; for the fiscal year ended June to the incurred by members of our armed services Senate Resolution 198 Committee on the District of Columbia. under certain conditions and to the depend­ ents of those who lose their lives under those IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, conditions; to the Committee on Invalid December 1, 1941. PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Pensions. Resolved, That the Senate has heard with Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public bills 2103. By Mr. ROLPH: Resolution of the deep regret and profound sorro the an­ San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, urg­ nouncement of the death of Han. ALVA B. and resolutions were introduced and sev­ ing all governmental agencies charged with ADAMS, late a Senator from the State of erally referred as follows: determining policies on priorities or alloca­ Colorado. By Mr. SMITH of Virginia: tions to give due consideration to the problem Resolved, That a committee of 19 Senators H. R. 6149. A bill to diminish the causes of of providing an adequate supply of repair be appointed by the President of the Senate labor disputes in the performance of na­ parts and maintenance materials essential for to take order for superintending the funeral tional-defense contracts; to the Committee on the proper upkeep of civilian living accommo­ of the deceased Senator. the Judiciary. dations, and to the problem of making these Resolved, That the Secretary communicate By Mr. MAY: repair parts and maintenance materials read­ these resolutions to the House of Representa­ H. R. 6150. A bill . to authorize certain offi­ ily available to the average individual; to tives and transmit a copy thereof to the cers and enlisted men of the Army of the the Committee on Military Affairs. family of the deceased. United States to accept emblems, medals, or­ 2104. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the Resolved, That as a further mark of re­ ders, and decorations that have been tendered .Gary Chamber of Commerce, Gary, Ind., pe­ spect to the memory of the deceased the Sen- them by governments of the Western Hemi­ titioning consideration of their ~ resolution ate do now adjourn. ' sphere; to the Committee on Military Affairs. with reference to the St. Lawrence seaway HOUR OF MEETING TOMORROW By Mr. MOSER: ~ project, and also unemployment compensa­ H. R. 6151. A bill to amend section 32 of tion; to · the Committee on Rivers and Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, I the Criminal Code; to the Committee on the Harbors. ask unanimous consent that when the J1ldiclary. 2105. Also, petition of the New Orleans As­ House adjaurns today it adjourn to meet By Miss RANKIN of Montana: sociation of Commerce, New Orleans, petition­ tomorrow at 11 o'clock a. m. · H. R. 6152. A bill providing for transporta­ in~ consideration of their resolution with tion home during furlough for noncommis­ eference to national transportation and labor; The SPEAKER. Is there objection? sioned officers and other enlisted men on to the Committee on Labor. There was no objection. active military service in the land forces of 2106. Also, petition of the Lutheran Broth­ THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE the United States; to the Committee on Mili­ erhood, Osage City, Kans., petitioning consid­ tary Affairs. eration of their resolution with reference to Mr. MARTIN J. KENNEDY. Mr. H. R. 6153. A bill providing that personal House bill 1410; to the Committee on Ways Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to pro­ correspondence of members of the armed and Means. ceed for 1 minute. forces of the United States on active duty 2107. Also, petition of the Air Associates, The SPEAKER. Is there objection? be transmitted in the mails free of postage; Inc., Bendix, N. J., petitioning consideration There was no objection. to the Committee on the Post Office and Post of their resolution with reference to labor and [Mr. MARTIN J. KENNEDY addressed Roads. the national-defense program; to the Com­ the House. His remarks appear in the By Mr. LANDIS: mittee ~m Military Affairs. H. R. 6154. A bill relating to certain prac­ Appt::ndix of the RECORD.l tices in connection with, and certain practices THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE leading to, labor disputes affecting the na­ Mr. LYNCH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan­ tional defense; to the Committee on Labor. By Mr. MAY: • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES imous consent to proceed for 1 minute and extend my remarks in the RECORD. H. J Res. 251. Joint resolution authorizing TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1941 the Secretary of War to receive for instruc­ The SPEAKER. Is there objection? tion at the United States Military Academy The House met at 11 o'clock a. m: There was no objection. at West Point, Ananta Khittasangka, a citi­ The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera [Mr. LYNCH addressed the House. His zen of Thailand; to the Committee on Mili­ tary Affairs. Montgomery, D. D., offered the following remarks appear in the Appendix of the By Mr. WINTER: prayer: RECORD.] · H. Res. 371 . Resolution to create a Select Heavenly Father, in the advent of Thy RURAL ELECTRIFICATION Committee to Investigate the Rural Electrifi­ only begotten Son was the fulfillment of Mr. RANKIN . of Mississippi. Mr. cation Administration under the Rural Elec­ "the Anointed of God, the hope of Israel,'' trification Act; to the Committee on Rules. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ad­ By Mr. JONES: who gathered to Himself all that is most dress the House for 1 minute and revise H. Res. 372. Resolution creating a Select beautiful and transcendant in the celes­ and extend my remarks and include Committee to Investigate the So-called tial universe. He brought into the. realm therein a statement from the Rural Elec­ Democratic National Press, Its Financial of sorrow and despair those glorious· trification Administration. Responsibility, Its Personnel, and Its Alleged truths, influences, and hopes which are The SPEAKER. Without objection, it Extensive Coverage of National-Defense Con­ destined to recover and revitalize the is so ordered. tractors; to the Committee on Rules. lapses of men. Grant that this Christ There was no objection. may so enrich our liyes that we may [Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi addressed seek to live by enlightened reason, by PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS the House. His remarks appear in the our sanctified affections, and by all no­ Appendix of the REqORD. 1 bility of soul to which we may attain as Under clause 1 of rule XXII, PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE . Mr. BOLAND introduced a . bill France. At one thoughtfully read a statement prepared tated by John L. Lewis' stri~e in the so­ time in 1936 practically the whole of by the Parliamentarian of this body in called captive mines-a strike called in French industry was in a state of com­ which he outlined the procedure that defiance of the Nation's ·safety an,d plete paralysis as a result of the Moscow­ will be followed in the consideration of equally in defiance of the best interests ordered and Moscow-led sit-down strikes. 9324 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 2 French defense industries lost millions of leadership of at least 11 of the unions one sort or another in the unions of the man-days at the most crucial moment in which are affiliated with the C. I. 0. All C. I. 0. have been affiliated with the French history since 1789, and at the very of the evidence which has been uncovered Communist Party or its auxiliary organi­ time when Nazi industries across the since that report was made has verified zations. Time and time again I have Rhine were working at top speed to equip the accuracy of our finding. For ex­ called upon the top leaders of the C. I. 0. the panzer divisions and to build the vast ample, when the American Peace Mobili­ to purge the Communists from all official fleet of stukas which were to spell the de­ zation was picketing the White House positions in the organization. The con· struction of France. In the perspective last spring we found that the main sup­ tinued leadership of Communists in the of the years which have elapsed since port for that Communist enterprise came. C. I. 0. can only work for the detriment French industry was paralyzed by the from the 11 unions which we had listed of the working men and women who are Communist-led sit-down strikes two fig­ in our report 2 years ago. under their control. ures appear in an extraordinarily tragic It is well known that the sit-down Most of this evidence concerning com­ light. They are Leon Blum and Leon strikes of 1937 led me to iRtroduce my munism in the c. I. 0. is now an old Jouhaux. Neither Blum nor Jouhaux resolution calling for an investigation of :;;tory. There may be those who tire of was a card-holding Communist, but both un-American activities. That investiga­ hearing about it, but I shall continue to of them condoned the work of the Com­ tion has turned up volumes of evidence raise my voice against the victimization munists in paralyzing French industry. which establishes beyond any possible of American working men and women Both of them went further than condon­ dispute. the fact that Communists were through Communist leadership. ing the sit-downs, however, for both tried in the forefront of the sit-down-strike What I have to say from now on is to profit out of France's tragedy. Leon movement and that they have remained not an old story. I have not hitherto Blum, the politician, headed a People's in positions of leadership in many of the spoken of the widespread presence of Front government, which had been ini­ C. I. 0. unions down to the present time. criminals in the officialdom of the C. I. 0. tiated in Moscow and which owed much On several occasions I have taken the How we came to possess the criminal of its numerical support to the sit-down floor of this House to call the names of records of C. I. 0. leaders is worth re­ strikes. Leon Jouhaux, the labor boss of important officials in the C. I. 0. who are cording. From time to time we discov­ France, boasted that he had built a labor Communists. In all but two or three in­ ered, more by accident than by intent, organization of 5,000,000 members largely stances out of hundreds their records that a certain C. I. O.leader with a Com­ as a result of. the sit-down strikes. Today of Communist affiliation have been so munist record also had a criminal record. Leon Blum has time to think it all over clear as to be beyond debate. In order For example, we found that the Com­ in his castle prison in the Pyrenees. I that we may more clearly grasp the na­ munist organizer of the National Asso­ do not know where Leon Jouhaux, the ture of the problem for whose solution ciation of Die Casters, Alex Balint, had John L. Lewis of France, is now thinking we are now contemplating some kind of served a prison term for the theft of an it all over, but wherever he is he can only legislation, I cite again a few of the more automobile. We found that the presi­ contemplate that the so-called labor glaring instances of Communist leader­ dent of the die casters' local at the alum­ gains of his sit-down era were long ago ship in the higher brackets of the ~num plants in Cleveland, Paul Martin, erased in the blood and tears of France. C. I. O.'s labor bosses: had served a long prison term for .a Leon Blum and Leon Jouhaux may have Joseph Curran, Frederick N. Myers, hold-up. Time and time again we dis­ wished France well. Their motives may and Patrick Whalen, of the National covered that C. I. 0. leaders had both have been good; their outlook progres­ Maritime Union. Communist and criminal records. sive. But they, and France with them, Michael Quill, John Santo, and Austin Such ugly facts concerning the back­ were destroyed because they coddled a Hogan, of the Transport Workers Union. grounds of C. I. 0. officials piled up in coalition of communism and criminality Lewis Alan Berne and Marcel Scherer, our records until they began to make a at the gravest moment in the history of of the Federation of Architects, Engi­ pattern. I have taken more or less at modern France. They may have worked neers, Chemists, and Technicians. random a cross section of the more re­ sincerely for what they conceived to be Ben Gold and Irving Potash, of the In­ cent additions to our files. I have here labor's gains, but their sincerity did not ternational Fur and Leather Workers the criminal records of a score of C. I. 0. save them and France from Hitler's Union. officials. Before the end of the year our panzer divisions or Goering's stukas. Donald Henderson, Emma Tenayuca, files will contain similar records of al­ I hope that the day may soon come and J. Austin Beasley, of the United Can­ most 1,000 C. I. 0. officials. when we purge our minds of the confu­ nery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied In the score of cases which I have sion that everything which masquerades Workers of America. before me here, I find that convictions as labor is indeed the true representative Harry Bridges and Mat Meehan, of the were obtained on the following charges: of the working man and woman of International Longshoremen's and Ware­ Grand larceny, burglary, grand theft, America. May the day soon come when housemen's Union. carrying concealed weapons, assault and we are able to distinguish clearly between James Matles, James Lustig, and Neil robbery, breaking and entering and lar­ labor's gains on the one hand and the ir­ Brandt, of the United Electrical, Radio, ceny, white slavery, hold-up, conspiracy, responsible power of labor bosses on the and Machine Workers of America. attempted arson, receiving stolen prop­ other hand. When I disclose the Com­ Joseph Selly and Leroy Bremmer, of erty, felonious assault, extortion, and munist and criminal records of a cross the American Communications Associa­ forgery; section of C. I. 0. officialdom mY mean­ tion. The C. I. 0. officials to whom these· ing will be clearer. Abram Flaxer and Nancy Reed, of criminal records belong are conected It has been shown repeatedly that the the State, County, and Municipal Work­ with the following unions: Communists flocked to the banners of the ers of America. United Automobile Workers of Amer­ C. I. 0. when John L. Lewis set out to Lewis Merrill and Dan Allen, of United ica. make himself the all-powerful boss over Office and Professional Workers of American Communications Associa· labor unions in America. Hundreds of America. tion. Communist Party members were em­ 0. M. Orton, of the Woodworkers of National Maritime Union. ployed as organizers throughout the America. Bergen County, N.J., Inci.ustrial Union United States. Earl Browder testified Grant Oakes, of the Farm Equipment Council. that more than 30,000 of his party's mem­ Workers Organizing Committee. Industrial Union of Marine and Ship- bers entered the C. I. 0. Certainly we George C. Peacock, Kenneth Eggert, building Workers. · would give little credence to Browder's Ralph Dawson, and Alex Balint, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of unsupported word on any subject, but for National Association of Die Casters. America. his claim that more than 30,000 card Reid Robinson, of the Mine, Mill, and International Fur and Leather· Work­ members of the Communist Party joined Smelter Workers of America. ers' Union. the ranks of the C. I. 0. he has ample George Powers, John Steuben, and United Retail and Whole~ale Employ..: corroborating evidence. Gertrude Haessler, of the Steel Workers' ees . . Our committee found unanimously in Organizing Committee. . Transport Workers' Union. its report to Congress 2 years ago that The records of our committee disclose The records of the following persons1 Commwlists were entrenched in the the fact that more_than 2,000 leaders of listed alphabetically, are before me: 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9325 John James Bonner, Leroy Bremmer, ceeded in getting 65 employees (out of more with. They make a sickening picture. Donald N. Brown, Charles Davey, Joseph than 650) of Air Associates to go out on strike. They make a shameful picture which Production of vital airplane parts was ob­ should impress itself upon us until we Doucette, Benjamin Fields, Ferdinand . structed temporarily, but the strike failed Galatioto, Melville Glynn, Charles Han­ dismally, and full production was resumed. come to an awareness of the nature and sen, Jack Hoffman, Allen Marcus, Edwin The New Jersey State Mediation Board, magnitude of the problem which we may Morris, Anthony Panchelly, Irving Pot­ headed by a Communist named William L. otherwise discuss too glibly. ash, Sam Rosenzweig, John Santo, Jesse Nunn, · intervened on behalf of the 65 em­ I wish to point out that there is an F. Suttka, Rubin Warsager, Patrick ployees and first made the novel suggestion inexorable logic in this coalition between Whalen, and Edward Woodward. that the management of the plant itself be communism and criminality. That logic· If it were not for the prohibitive cost of removed if it failed to comply with his de- is simply this: A lot of criminals who mands. · reproducing these records, I would have The National Defense Mediation Board then had found the law an obstruction to offered 500 of them for your inspection intervened on behalf of the 65 employees their robbery, burglary, larceny, and instead of this cross section of 20. You whose strike had turned out to be a fiasco. hold-ups discovered that they had been may, however, have them if you so desire. The National Defense Mediation Board or­ in the wrong racket. They saw commu­ Flve of those listed above have been dered Air Associates to reinstate all of the nists committing innumerable acts of organizers of the United Automobile strikers. lawlessness-violence, seizure of the Workers at the plant of Air Associates at The Air Associates agreed to reinstatement property of others, obstruction of public Bendix, N. J. · Inasmuch as that plant with the proviso that such reinstatement highways, stoppage of the mails, conspir­ would be completed within 30 days, so that a was taken over by the United States Army minimum of friction would result from dis­ acy, extortion, and so forth-in the name not long ago as a result of some so-called placin·g new employees with those who had of labor unions. They saw Government labor troubles, let us look more closely at gone on strike and were now ordered rein- yield disgracefully before the revolution­ the records of the union organizers whose stated. · ary lawlessness of the sit-down strike. activities led to this Army seizure of Air Richard Frankensteen, national official of They figured that there was at least one Associates. First, consider the record of the United Automobile Workers, rushed to racket beyond the law and that they Organizer John James Bonner. In 1926 . New Jersey, and announced that he would had only to masquerade as labor leaders Bonner was sent up for 3 years for grand bring about a five-State stoppage in aircraft in order to ply their old trades. · The re­ production if Air Associates did not immedi­ larceny, Again in 1927, after having been ately reinstate all the strikers to their former sult has been that hundreds of men have paroled, he was sent up for 3 years for positions. stepped out of prisons into union jobs. grand larceny. In 1930 Bonner drew an Frankensteen then fiew to Washington. He The records speak the ugly, naked truth 18-year term for third-degree burglary. walked into the White House and, 30 minutes of the matter. Having served 10 years of his last sen­ later, emerged with the announcement that Too long have we allowed ourselves to tence, John James Bonner then became the President had given him assurance of be intimidated into an acceptance in an organizer for the United Automobile complete support for his demands. silence of the ugly truth about these mat­ Workers. Second, consider the record of Army officers were sent to the Air Associates ters. The Communists cry "red baiter" Organizer Joseph Doucette. In 1929 Dou­ plant to observe the return of the 65 strikers when we drive them from cover into the cette, a man of numerous aliases, had his to their former positions. When the 65 entered the plant, most of the light of day. The criminals and rack­ first encounter with the law. His offense 700 employees walked out temporarily in pro­ eteers cry "labor baiter" when we turn the was robbery. From that time onward test against the decision of the National De­ spotlight ut:on their miserable exploita­ for about 10 years Doucette was variously fense Mediation Board, and some of them un­ tion of workingmen and women. I, for charged with and convicted for breaking, dertook forcibly to prevent the return of one, refuse to be intimidated either by entering, larceny. receiving, petty larceny, the 65. the Communists or the criminals, either robbery, and larceny on four counts. In Thereupon the United States Army was or­ by the radicals or the racketeers. As 1941 Doucette became an organizer for dered to take over the plant and dispossess long as truth, and right, and the welfare the United Automobile Workers at the Its private owners and managers. of American workingmen . and women plant of Air Associates at Bendix, N. J. The final act in this amazing episode has been the resignation, under Army pressure, are on my side, I care not who cries red Third, consider the record of Ferdinand of the former management of Air Associates baiter or labor baiter. Galatioto, also an organizer at the plant as a condition for the return of the plant Five years ago, I denounced the sit­ of Air Associates. Most of the time be­ to its rightful owners. down strike as an instrument of revolu­ tween 1926 and 1941 Galatioto was in the tionary lawlessness more harmfui to toils of the law. Petty larceny, parole Let us hope that Richard Franken­ labor than to industry. I expressed a violation, and carrying concealed weap­ steen's threats in the future will be profound conviction of my life that the ons were the charges for which he served treated like John L. Lewis' threats; with overwhelming majority of labor-organ­ prison terms. In 1941 Galatioto was pa­ the contempt that a powerful and sov­ ized . or unorganized-would, if it were roled during the third year ·of a 7-Year ereign Government owes a labor boss articulate, join me in my denunciation sentence which he was serving at Elmira, whose domain was built on lawlessness. of that Communist importation from N.Y. Shortly after his release from El­ I am indebted to the President for .call- France. mira he became an organizer for the , ing John L. Lewis' demand for a Govern­ Today I rise to denounce this mass in­ United Automobile Workers. Fourth, ment-sponsored closed shop by its right vasion o{ the C. I. 0. unions by men of consider the record of Organizer Allen name. The President called it Hitlerism. criminal inclinations and records. I am Marcus. Unlike his three fellow organiz­ Indeed, John L.~ has been in this sulking profoundly convinced that the over­ ers whom I have cited, Marcus had only and defiant mood for the sole reason that whelming majority of labor would, if it one conviction, and that was for burglary the President has declined to help him were articulate, join me in ·. this solemn and petty larceny. Conviction for some obtain the same kind of power over protest against the criminal and the kind of stealing seems to have been a American workingmen that Hitler con­ racketeer in unions. prerequisite for getting an organizer's job ferred upon Dr. Robert Ley. You may However I vote on any of the questions in the United Automobile Workers at the call it Hitlerism, Stalinism, totalitarian­ that come before us in trying to solve the Air Associates plant, for finally we cnme ism, or what have you; it is un-America.11 problem of uninterrupted production, I to the record of Organizer Edwin Morris, to force workingmen into the·shackles of want it understood that I am voting not who was sentenced 1 to 2 years for receiv­ labor bosses who strive to build up per­ to curb labor but to aid in its emancipa­ ing stolen property in the State of Penn­ sonal power for themselves through the tion, not t·o force labor into any form of sylvania. use of the Communist and criminal ele­ totalitarian slavery-whether it be Hit­ I have cited the records of these Bendix, ments that gravitate toward them. ler's brand or that of John L. Lewis-but N. J., organizers in some detail because Aping Hitler on this side of the Atlan­ to aid in driving both the Communist the Army's seizure of the Air Associates tic is not going to help us smash him on and the criminal from the labor scene. · plant in that town was a part of one of the other side. Zealously must we guard The investigators' reports previously the most amazing stories of official grov:­ the rights of free labor and free enter­ referred to by me follow: eling before Communists and criminals prise, lest we lose the power that stems John James Bonner: Organizer, United ever recorded. In brief, the following is only from a free, democratic, and united Auto Workers, Congress of Industrial Organ­ the outline of the Air Associates story: people. izations, Air Associates, Bendix, N.J. United Automobile Workers' organizers with I ask that you examine carefully the Address, 610 Riverside Drive, New York surprisingly similar criminal records sue- criminal records which I submit here- City. 9326 CONGRESSIONAL_ RECORP-HOUSE DECEMBER 2 Record from fingei' prints: Address, 252 Park Avenue, East Orange, Party. In 1923 he joined the Communist. Malone, N. Y., as John Bonner, in 1926, N.J. Party. He speaks Russian fluently and reads grand larceny, 3 years, parole. Record· of fingerprints: German, speaking English with no accent Malone, N. Y., as John Bonner, in 1927, January 10, 1929, police department, Ho-­ whatsoever. He is about 52 yearG of age, and grand larceny, first 3 years served sentence. boken, N. J., as Joseph Douc~tte, No. 3673; has a wrinkled face with baggy e~es; bald Malone, N. Y., as John James Bonner, robbery. with reddish hair, which always protrudes April 18, 1930, burglary. third degree. May 16, 1929, pollee department, Newark, underneath the back of his hat, indicating · Malone, N.Y., county jail, as John Bonner, N. J., as Joseph Doucette, No. 11639; charged a home haircut; sometimes wears glasses. He April 18, 1930, burglary, third; disposition 18 with breaking, entering, larceny; sentence is about 5 feet 8¥2 inches in height, and years, Dannemora, N. Y. suspended. weighs about 165 pounds. Has blue or blue­ Dannemora, N.Y., --Clinton Prison, as John February 2, 1932, police department, New­ gray eyes. When in New York, which is Bonner, June 3, 1930, confessed burglar, 10 ark, N. J., as Eugene I. Lauter, No. 11639; quite often, he hangs around the district years. petty larceny; 6 months probation. office of the Communist Party. Applied May 22, 1941, for position Electric September 1, 1932, police department, Ben Field has a .police record with the Boat Co., Bayonne, N.J. Newark, N. J., as Joseph Doucette, No. 11639; Jersey City police, having been picked. up on Finger prints taken June 26, 1941, Bergen grand larceny. a dangerous-weapons charge, which is still County police, Hackensack, N. J., as John September 6, 1932, special officer, police pending against him and four others, the James Bonner, applicant for position Air As­ department, Newark, N. J., as Jean F. Lauter, bail being put up by the National Maritime sociates, and prior to report being received No. 15402; breaking, entering, larceny, receiv­ Union, who has paid the expense of the bail from Federal Bureau of Investigation, was ing. bonds for these five men up to date. hired by Air Associates. We. are informed by October 27, 1932, special police, Trenton, Ferdinand Galatioto (alias Ferdinand Ga­ Captain DuBois that Bonner was rehired by N. J., as Jean F. Lauter, No. 15402; entering, lante): Organizer, United Auto Workers, the Army when they took over the operation larceny, and robbery; 6 years to 6 years and 3 Congress of · Industrial Organizations, Air of the Air Associates plant. months. Associates, Bendix, N. J. November 19. 1941. December 9, 1932, as Jean F. Lauter, enter­ Address, 145 Marshall Avenue, Little Ferry, Leroy Bremmer: Secretary, local No. 15, ing State reformatory at Rahway, N. J., on 6 N.J. broadcast, American Communications Asso­ years and 3 months sentence. Record. from fingerprints: ciation, 974¥2 South Hoover Street, Los An­ November 17, 1936, Central Identification Parental school, 1926, truancy, 1 year. geles, Calif. Bureau, Union County, Elizabeth, N. J., as Returned parental school, 1927, violation Records of W. M. Kerr, registrar of voters, Jean Lauter, No. 9755;. larceny on four counts. parole; released in 9 months. Los Angeles, 1940-41: No record. April 24, 1941, police department, Elizabeth, New York City reformatory September 28, . Records of Los Angeles Police Department, N. J., as Jock Frederick Doucette, No. 548- E; 1931; paroled in 9 months. Bureau of Identification: Hair, brown; height, applicant for employment; prints received Wanted by parole commission for violation 5 feet 10 inches; weight, 140 pounds; age, April 24, 1941. of parole; warrant issued February 16, 1933. 31 years in 1931; Los Angeles No. 29873 M 14; May 15, 1941, police department, Bellville, April 23, 1937, returned to reformatory for Folsom No. 17497. N. J., as Jack F. Doucette, No. 307; applicant violation of parole. August 7, 1931, arrested and sentenced for for position. June 24, 1931, petty larceny; disposition, grand theft, merchandise. August 29, 1941, police department, Hacken­ New York City reformatory. Donald N. Brown: Organizer, National sack, N. J., as Jack Frederick Doucette; ap­ February_ 13, 1936, vagrancy; suspended Maritime Union, Congress of Industrial Or­ plicant for position; prints received August sentence. · ganizations. 29, 1941. March 22, 1938, laws of 1897, gun. Address, San Bernardino, Calif. Hoboken, N. J., police have record of ar­ May 9, 1938, carrying concealed weapons, Pedigree (1937): Age 30 years. resting above man in Hoboken, N. J., in felony; 7 years State reformatory, Elmira, · Records of Jersey City (N. J.) Police De­ 1929; also again arresting above man in 1!132 N. Y.; paroled February 3, 1941, to Little partment: for Newark police; charged with stealing Ferry, N. J. January 14, 1933, as Donald N. Brown, San pocketbook: 6 months probation. September 29, 1941, as Ferdinand Gala­ Bernardino. Calif.; carrying concealed weap­ Benjamin Fields, alias Isadore Friedman, tioto, fingerprinted by Bergen County police, ons; fined $60 or 30 days. alias Isaac Friedman: Organizer of National Hackensack, N.J., for position,- Air Associates, January 1, 1937, as Donald N. Brown, Hobo­ Maritime Union, Congress of Industrial Or­ Bendix, N. J., and subsequent to receipt of ken, N. J., assault and robbery; sentenced to ganizations. report hired by Air Associates. State prison for 14 to 15 years and costs. Pedigree: Wrinkled face; bags under eyes; Mel ville Glynn: Financial secretary, Indus­ Judge Kinkead. about 52- 53 years of age; sometimes wears trial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding January 1, 1937, as Donald N. Brown, Hobo­ glasses; eyes blue or gray; bald head, reddish Workers, 1838 Cedar Avenue, Bronx, N. Y. ken, N. J ., material witness; committed to hair. Address: 134 West Sixty-sixth Street, New grand jury; recorder Romano. Records of Jersey City, N. J., Police De­ York City. Charier. Davey: Secretary, Bergen County partment: Pedigree (1939) : 40 years old; 5 feet 10 (N. J.) Industrial Union Council of Edge­ January 20, 1917, as Isadore Friedman, New inches; 158 pounds; slim build; spare gray water, N. J., an organization comprised of York City; charged with felonious assault; · hair; blue eyes; occupation, laborer; born delegates from Congress of Industrial Or­ Officer Stagemole, one hundred and fifty­ United States of America. ganizations unions at Ford Motor Co., ninth precinct; sentence, 3 months work­ Records of New York City police depart­ Aluminum Co. of America, National Sugar houRe. ment: Refining Co. et al., Edgewater, N.J. August 14, 1919, as Isaac Friedman, New July 27, 1920, as Melville Glynn, Helena, Address, Edgewl').ter, N. J. · York City; anarchy; Officer Neman, of bomb Mont.; grand larceny; 1 to 2 years, State Pedigree (1939): 34 years old, 5 feet 8¥2 squad. prison. inches, 152 pounds, chestnut hair, blue eyes, February 6, 1938, as Benjamin Field, Jersey July 10, 1924, as Melville Glynn, Wichita, born in New York City. City, N. J.; disorderly person and dangerous Kans.; white slavery; July 11, 1924, fined Records of Edgewater, N. J ., Police· Depart- weapons. On February 17, 1938, sentenced $51.90; to farm. ment: · 3 months, Hudson f'!ounty Penitentiary. July 7, 1926, as M.A. Glynn, Santa Monica, August 3, 1939, as Charles Davey, No . 44301, Held for grand jury on dangerous-weapons Calif.; hold-up; convicted in Los Angeles and arrested on assault and battery and dis­ charge. sentenced to 5 years Folsom Prison. orderly conduct charge, sentenced Octobe:· 2, At 8:30 a . m., February 6, 1938, Patrolman January 5, 1936, as Melville Glynn, 1939, on the disorderly conduct charge to William Campbell, of the Hudson County Po­ Oneonta, N. Y.; petty larceny; convicted. $100 fine, and sentenced October 10, 1940, on lice Department, stopped a Packard sedan on October 8, 1939, as Melville Glynn, New the assault and battery charge and pla.ced on the Skyway, in which Fields was riding, and York City; grand larceny. (Told detective at probation for 3 years; charge was assaulttng found in the car a .45-caliber Colt revolver time of arrest he was boss in a shipbuilding a police officer. loaded with five shells. The sedan was owned union at navy yard.) February 28, 1940, as Charles Davey, South by the National Maritime Union at Balti­ Charles Hansen, alias Walter Hansen, alias Hackensack, N. J ., charged with assault and more, Md., and the occupants identified them­ "Scoop": Organizer of National Maritime battery and fined $15. selves as members of the union who were Union, Congress of Industrial Organizations. In a report submitted by the New York on their· way to a Congress of Industrial Or­ Address, Brooklyn, N. Y. office of the Dies committee under date of ganizations meeting in New York City. A Records of the Jersey City (N. J.) Police October 9, 1941, this same person, Charles Congress of Industrial Organizations slgn Department: Davey, addressed a meeting of the Bergen was on the baclt of the car. Occupants de­ Brooklyn, N. Y., truancy; 3 months train­ County chapter of the American Peopies' nied ownership of the gun, saying that it was ing school. Mobilization, held in Cliffs'de Park, N. J., in the car because the auto was used oc­ April 25, 1910, as Charles Hansen, Brooklyn, October 9, 1941. casionally to transport sums of IX:loney to N. Y., burglary. Officer McClune, one hun­ Joseph Doucette, alias Eugene I. Lauter, various cities. dred and forty-fifth precinct; sentenced to alias Jean F. Lauter, alias Jean Lautei·, alias November 13, 1941, according to .informa­ Elmira Reformatory. Jock Frederick Doucette: Organizer, United tion in the New York office of the Dies com­ December 19, 1912, as Walter Hansen', Auto Workers, Congress of Industrial Organi­ mittee, Ben Field was, prior to 1923, one of Brooklyn, N. Y., attempted burglary; Officer zations. Air Associated, BendiX, N. J. the extreme Anarchists in the Workers O'Dea, DD. 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9327 · April 12, 1913, as Walter Hansen, Brooklyn, Record from fingerprints: Records, New York City Police Department: N. Y.; petty larceny; sentenced 3 months, March 29, 1921, Eastern f:)tate Penitentiary, B122255, May 13, 1929, New York City, dis­ Blackwells Island Penitentiary. Pennsylvania, as Edwin Morris, c-757, receiv­ orderly conduct; May 28, 1929, suspended November 14, 1913, as Walter Hansen, ing stolen property; 1 to 2 years. sentence; Magistrate Vitale, eighth court; Brooklyn, N. Y.; petty larceny; Officer Fergu­ August 30, 1941, as Edwin Lewis Morris, Jr.; Officer Baree. twenty-second precinct. son, one hundred and forty-fifth precinct; fingerprinted by Bergen County Police, Hack­ October 9, 1931, Brooklyn; charged felonious 1 year, Blackwells Island Penitentiary. ensack, N.J., applicant for position, Air Asso­ assault; Detectives Kennedy and Gaynor, sev­ April 12, 1915, as Walter Hansen, Brooklyn, ciates, and prior to report being received enty-third precinct. N.Y.; attempted burglary; Officer Howerline, from Federal Bureau of Investigation was February 27, 1934, Brooklyn; extortion; one hundred an'd forty-fifth precinct; 1 Y2 hired by Air Associates. April 19, 1934, 2 to 5 years, Sing Sing; Judge years ·at Sing Sing; escaped Auburn Prison, Anthony Panchelly, alias Joseph Mignone: Russell, supreme court; Detectives Gaynor July 23, 1916. organizer, National Maritime Union, Congress and Kennedy, seventy-third precinct. January 28, 1919, as Charles Hansen, Brook­ of Industrial Organizations. John Santo, alias Desideriu Hammer, alias lyn, N.Y.; escaped prisoner; Officer Carberry, Address: San Francisco, Calif. Jack We1ss, alias John Szanto: Member of eighty-ninth squad; turned over to Keeper Pedigree (1937): Age 44 years. the Communist Party, United States of Murphy, Auburn Prison. Records of Jersey City, N. J., Police .De­ America. October 2, 1931, as Charles Hansen, Balti­ partment: Secretary-treasurer of Transport Workers more, Md.; violation of motor-vehicle law. March 31, 1909, as Joseph Mignone, Phila­ Union, Congress ·of Industrial Organizations, October 2, 1931, as Charles Hansen, Bal­ delphia, Pa., breaking, entering, and larceny; until September 26, 1940, when he refused to timore, Md.; disorderly conduct and common 6 months Pennsylvania Industrial Reforma­ run again for office, due to disclosures of the assault; fined when pleaded guilty. tory. Huntington, Pa. Dies committee. · March 24, 1932, as Charles Hansen, Balti­ December 3, 1913, as Joseph Mignone, Nor­ Arrested September 8, 1941, on a deportation more, Md.; violation of motor-vehicle law; ristown, Pa.; breaking, entering, and larceny; warrant charging him with being an alien, fined. 3 years Montgomery County jail. illegally in the country. Freed Qn $1,000 bail, March 28, 1938, as Charles Hansen, Balti­ June 14, 1916, as Joseph Mignone, Phila­ he was immediately rearrested by ·Federal Bu­ more, Md.; found guilty of violation of motor­ delphia, Pa.; larceny; 60 days in Philadelphia reau of Investigation, New York City, for vehicle laws and fined. Couniy prison. fraudulently stating to his select1ve-service February 6, 1938, as Charles Hansen, Jer­ November 8, 1918, as Joseph Mignone, Phil­ board that he was a citizen of the United sey City, N. J.; disorderly person and dan­ adelphia, Pa.; larceny; 3Y2 to 5 years Eastern States. gerous weapons; on February 17, 1938, 3 State Penitentiary; B-9405. Jesse F . SuttKa, alias Bud Lee, alias James months Hudson County Penitentiary; held Malone: Organizer of National Maritime December 16, 1924, . as Joseph Mignone, St. Union, Congress of Industrial Organizations. for grand jury on dangerous-weapons charge. Louis, Mo.; booster (ex-convict); no final At 8:30 a. m., February 6, 1938, Patrolman disposition. · · Add;-ess: Jersey City, N. J. Records of the Jersey City, N. J., Police William Campbell, of the Hudson County Po­ February 20, 1934, as Anthony Panchelly, lice Department, stopped a Packard sedan on Department: Lake Charles, La.; assault and robbery; re­ December 11, 1923, as Bud Lee, No. 17415; the Skyway, in which Hansen was riding, and leased. found in the car a 45-caliber Colt revolver received r..t the Ohio State Reformatory, January 1, 1937, as Anthony Panchelly, Ho­ Mansfield, Ohio, term 1 to 20 years, on charge loaded with five shells. The sedan was owned boken, N. J.; assault and robbery. Sentenced of grand larceny of a motor vehicle. by the National Maritime Union at Balti­ to State prison 14 to 15 years and costs. more, Md., and the occupants identified them­ September 13, 1927, as J. F. Suttka, Salt Judge Kinkead. Lake City, Utah, No. 2412; on charge or selves as members of the union, who were on January 5, 1937, as Anthony Panchelly, Ho­ vagrancy. their way to a Congress of Industrial Organ­ boken, N.J.; material witness. Committed to izations meeting in New York City. A Con­ December 31, 1932, as Jesse F. suttka, No. grand jury; Recorder Romano. 3969; Mason City, Iowa. Held for investiga­ gress of Industrial Organizations sign was on Irving Potash: manager, Furrier Joint tion. the back of the car. Occupants denied own­ Council of New York, International Fur and ership of the gun, saying that it was in the January 31, 1933, as James Malone, Mount Leather Workers Union, Congress of Indus­ Vernon, N. Y. Held for investigation. car because the auto was used occasionally trial Organizations; Locals 101, 105, 110, 115, February 6, 1938, as Jesse F. Suttka, No. to transport sums of money to various cities. 70; 250 West Twenty-sixth Street. 541, Jersey City, N. J. Disorderly person and Jack Hoffman, alias Alexander Hoffman: Address: 1476 Forty-fourth Street, Brook­ dangerous weapons. On February 17, 1938, general manager, Cleaners and Dyers Union, lyn, N.Y. 3 months Hudson County penitentiary. Held Congress of Industrial Organizations, Local Pedigree (1934): 32 years old, 5 feet 6inches, for grand jury on dangerous weapons charge. No. 239, of A. C. W. of A., 403 Fourth Avenue, 140 pounds, blonde hail·, blue eyes, born in NoTE.-As Bud Lee, in the last 5 years has New York City. Russia; occupation, furrier. been arrested four or five times for vagrancy, Address, 504 Grand Street, New York City. Records of New York City Police Depart­ in different parts of the country. Pedigree (1940): Thirty-eight years old; 5 ment: At 8:30 a. m. February 6, 1938, Patrolman feet 7 inches; 170 pounds; stocky build; William · Campbell, of the Hudson County brown hair; gray eyes; medium build; born November 18, 1919, as Irving Potash, Brook­ lyn, N. Y.; charged criminal anarchy; plea to police department stopped a Packard sedan in Russia. on the Skyway, in which Suttka was riding, Records of the New York Police Depart­ a misdemeanor; term in penitentiary; Detec­ tive Carrell. and found in the car a 45-caliber Colt· re­ ment: volver loaded with five shells. The sedan July 17, 1929, as Jack Hoffman, Bronx, N.Y., December 8, 1920, as Irving Potash, New York City, violation of immigration law. was owned by the National Maritime Union felonious assault at Baltimore, Md., and the occupants identi­ December 2, 1931, as Alexander Hoffman, Ordered to be deported on Department of Labor warrant No. 54810-321. Placed on bail fied themselves as members of the union who Bronx, N. Y., felonious assault. were on their way to a Congress of Industrial July 13, 1932, as Alexander Hoffman, Bronx, of $1,000 for rehearing on February 28, 1921, at Ellis Island. On April 1, 1921, warrant of Organizations meeting in New York City. N. Y., felonious assault. A Congress of Industrial Organizations sign October 9, 1937, as Alexander Hoffman, Man­ deportation canceled. October 15, 1929, as Irving Potash, New York was on the back of the car. Occupants de­ hattan, malicious mischief. nied ownership . of the gun, saying that it June 14, 1940, as Alexander Hoffman, City; charged felonious assault; Detectives Gregory and Lillis, fourteenth squad. was in the car because the auto was used Queens, conspiracy and attempted arson; sen­ occasionally to transport sums of money to tenced to 8 years. March 4, 1930, as Irving Potash, New York various cities. Allen Marcus: Organizer, United Auto City; charged felonious assault (knife); Offi­ November 13, 1941: According to informa­ Workers, Congress of Industrial Organiza­ cer Braumann, fourteenth precinct. tion in New York office of Dies committee, tions, Air Associates, Bendix, N. J. July 5, 1923, as Irving Potash, New York Jesse F. Suttka stands high in the circles of Address, 754 East One Hundred and Fifty­ City; charged felonious assault; Detectives the Communist Party. He hangs around first Street, Bronx, N. Y. O'Brien and Schultheiss, radical squad. with Anthony Bimba, who wrote History o:f; Records of the New York City Police De­ January 3, 1934, as Irving Potash, New .York the American Labor Movement, who is a partment: City; charged antitrust law (racketeer), case member of the Politburo and former editor December 4, 1937, as Allen Marcus, at Bronx pending, United States marshal. No final of Lysve, at 46 Ten Eyck Street, Brooklyn, County, N. Y., burglary and petty larceny. disposition at present. N. Y. Suttka is also a great pal of George New York County Penitentiary, but sentence Sam Rosenzweig: Manager Local No. 266, Mink. Suttka is a painter but at the present suspended by Judge Patterson. United Smoked Fish Employees, United Re­ time (1941) is on the goon squad of the Na­ Fingerprints taken August 29, 1941, Bergen tail and Whole Employees, Congress of Indus­ tional Maritime Union, Congress of Indus­ County police, Hackensack, N. J., ·as Allen trial Organizations, of 87 East Ninety-third trial Organizations. He has visited Russia, Joseph Marcus, applicant for position at the Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. having made a trip as a seaman with Mc­ Air Associates, Bendix, N. J. Address: 135 East Ninety-fifth Street, Quiston on a vessel which was purchased in Edwin Morris: Organizer. United Auto Brooklyn, N. Y. the United States of America and delivered to Workers, Congress of Industrial Organiza­ Pedigree (1934) : 40 years old; 5 feet 8 them at Vladivostok. This was during the tions, Air Associates, Bendix, N. J. inches; 220 pounds; stock build; dark-brown year 1929. Although he was at one time ex­ Address, 144 Union Street, Hackensack, hair; brown eyes; born in Russia; occupation, pelled from the party because of drunkenness N.J. business agent. and disorderly conduct to a, leading comrade, 9328 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 2 he has since been reinstated and is at present A. RAMSPECK BILL In addition, the Ramspeck bill author­ ( 1941) a member of t h e Communist Party. Description of Suttlm: He is about 5 feet First. A Mediation Board will be es­ izes the Department of Justice to obtain 8% inches tall, weighs 165 pounds, and al­ tablished by the President consisting of injunctions through the Federal courts ways speaks through the side of his mouth. representatives of employers, employees, and setting aside the protection of the Rubin Warsager: Manager Local No. 150, and the public. This Board will assume Nor.ris-LaGuardia Act. This will merely International Fur and Leather Workers all the functions of the present National bring industrial disputes back into the Union, Congre ~ s of .:;:ndustrial Organizations, Defense Mediation BoarJ. Federal courts with the accompanying 289 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Second. The Board will have jurisdic­ abuses which gave rise to the Norris­ Address: 87-14 Twenty-first Avenue, Flush­ ing. Long Island. N. Y. tion over all industrial disputes which in LaGuardia Act. At the present time, Pedigree (1939): 27 years old; born United any manner affect the national-defense when it is so essential to obtain natfonal States of America; occupation, union official. program. In the event an adjustment unity, through voluntary action of all our Records, New York City Police Department: cannot be worked out between the parties citizens, compulsion through Federal December 21, 1939, as Rubin Warsager, the Board will set up a panel which will court injunctions will not serve to assure Manhattan, charged conspiracy; on May 21, investigate the dispute and issue its find­ the attainment of our national policy. 1940, 6 months workhouse; special 8essions ings of fact and recommendations. The Ramspeck bill establishes the leg­ court; officer Hains, district attorney's office. Third. The Board is given the author­ islative principle of co:.npulsory abroga- · Patrick Whalen: Organizer of National Maritime Union, Congress of Industrial Or­ ity to issue orders restraining any strike tion of the right to strike. This creates ganizations. or stoppage of production. There is con­ economic slavery for Americans. What Address: Baltimore. Md. tained a clause which is meaningless­ can be done for 60 days can be enlarged Records of the Jersey City (N. J.)· Police that no in1ividual will be compelled to to several years. Our struggle against Department: - continue at work without his consent. Hitler will lose its intensity through the August 10, 1936, as Patrick Whalen, New This order of the Board can last for a adoption of any such Nazi concepts. York City; disorderly conduct; sentence, 10 maximum period of 60 days after its days workhouse. Furthermore, the Ramspeck bill incor­ August 31, 1936, as Patrick Whalen, Balti­ issuance. porates the provision of the Connally bill more, Md.; disorderly conduct; discharged. Fourth. The Attorney General upon for .the establishment of a Wage Board December 3, 1936, as Patrick Whalen, Bal­ the request of the Board is given the au­ where the President has taken possession timore, Md.; larceny; held for grand jury. thority to apply to the Federal courts for of plants in the case of industrial dis­ February 6, 1938, as Patrick Whalen, Jersey an injunction enforc~'lg its orders. The putes, which Wage Board shall have the City, N. J .; disorderly : erson and dangerous Norris-LaGuardia Act is set aside for the final word as to all wages for such plants. weapons; on February 17, 1938, sentenced to purpose of obtaining such injunctions. The objections that applied to the Con­ 3 months Hudson County penitentiary. At 8:30 a. m. February 6, 1938, Patrolman Of course violations uf any outstanding nally bill are applicable to this provision William Campbell, of the Hudson County Po­ injunctions would subject the violators of the Ramspeck bill. lice Department, stopped a Packard sedan on to contempt of ~ourt which would involve The Smith and Vinson bills, of course, the Skyway, in which Whalen was riding, and criminal penalties. are intended to destroy organized labor. fo~nd in the car a 45-caliber Colt revolver Fifth. Wherever a labor dispute is not They do not in any way even purport loaded with five shells. The sedan was owned settled through mediation, the President to solve the problem of industrial dis­ by the National Maritime Union at "1altimore, putes. If anything, the~ will merely Md., and the occupants identified themselves may take possession of and operate the as members of the union, who were en their plant. During .. mch operation a wage serve to aggravate the situation. Cer­ way to a Congress of Industrial Organizations board is established, composed of three tainly organized labor is not going to sit meeting in New York City. A Congress of members who will have the final word idly by and watch itself destroyed. The Industrial Organizations sign was on back of as to any adjustment of wages. There imposition through this legislation of car. Occupants denied ownership of the will be no appeal from their decision. compulsory arbitration would be simply gun, saying that it was in the car because the B. SMITH AND VINSON BILLS establishing a Hitlerite form of society auto was used occasionally to transport sums while we are seeking to destroy Hitler. of money to various cities. The gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Labor recognizes what compulsory arbi­ Edward Woodward, alias Edward Melvin: SMITH] and the gentleman from Georgia tration imposed through legislation would Organizer National Maritime Union, Congress [Mr. VINSON] have announced that they of Industrial Organizations. do to the workers of the Nation. Its Address: San Pedro, Calif. will present their bills as substitutes for very purpose is easily revealed in the Pedigree (1937): Age 25 years. the Ramspeck bill when the latter meas­ penalties that are also suggested that Records of Jersey City, N.J., Police Depart­ ure comes on the floor of the House. The unions and members not complying with ment: · Vinson bill goes one step beyond the the award would be denied the benefits January 12. 1933. as Edward Woodworth, Ramspeck bill by providing for compul­ of the Wagner Act, the Social Security Los Angeles; Calif.; forgery (warrant). On sory arbitration. Act, and other labor legislation. Emplo-y­ March 16, 1933, 1 to 10 years; probation 9 The Smith bill would accomplish the ers would thereby be able to discharge all months county road camp to make restitu­ following: (a) Freeze all terms and con­ members of the union, they would be tion. ditions of employment as of the passage Szptember 15, 1933, as Edward Woodworth, denied unemployment compensation and No. 179911, sheriff's office, Los Angeles, Calif., of the bill; (b) outlaw practically all other social-security benefits, and denied forgery; September 15, 1933, expires. picketing; and (c) deny individuals and relief. In other words, a class of outcasts Notations: November 15, J925, L, A. G. T. to unions the benefits of the National Labor and pariahs is to be established which county probation officer: ccmmitted to Whit­ Relations Act, the Social Security Act, would be rich food for Hitler's "fifth tier. December 23, 1925, stay of execution and relief where there is any violation of column." · granted for 8 weeks. January 15, 1926, L. A. the Smith bill. att. G. T. Committed Whittier January 22, Compulsion through legislation cannot 1926. October 13. 1932. L. W. WTD.; for­ The Ramspeck, Smith, Vinson bills and will not solve industrial-relations gery, warrant No. 797, file No. 2966. seek to shackle labor, permit employers problems. To the contrary, it can only January 1, 1937. as Edward Woodworth, to run wild with mounting profits, and serve to weaken the national unity be­ Hoboken. N. J.. assault and robbery; com­ will only serve to aggravate and increase hind President Roosevelt's call for all-out mitted to grand jury: on March 18, 1937, industrial disputes. effort in support of our Nation's policies. sentenced to State prison, 14 to 15 years and The Ramspeck bill in effect attempts Mr. Chairman, the world's greatest costs; Judge Kinkead. to impose a situation through legislation propaganda machine has been at work January 1. 1937, as Edward Woodworth, which the c. I. 0. has already accepted Hoboken, N. J., material witness; committed for some time against the cause of labor, grand jury. Recorder Romano, police court. and adopted through voluntary action. and in this way attention has been In other words, the C.I. 0. has stated as diverted from the real cause of the high Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ its express and forthright poliCy that cost of the national-defense program. man, I yield 30 minutes to the gentleman mediation and peaceful solution of in­ The newspapers have been emphasizing from Michigan [Mr. HooK]. dustrial disputes is ene of the utmost im­ it every day. Criticism of certain activ­ Mr. HOOK. Mr. Chairman, in ap­ portance and will be followed. Legisla­ ities of labor has been indulged in. proaching this subject I think that it tion which seeks to impose this policy Agitation, misrepresentation, and hys­ would b€. proper to analyze the provisions can reap no good but merely engender teria has ruled supreme. Cries from the of the antistrike legislation that is before resentment. The voluntary acceptance group that has always opposed better us here today. First, let us consider the of this resolution by the workers will conditions for labor has been working provisions of the Ramspeck bill. actually achieve the end sought, overtime in its enthusiasm for the enact- 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9329 ment of legislation designed to shackle watchword of national morale. The. country has undertaken. This program the free cause of labor. This criticism C. I. 0., the American Federation of Labor, was not started overnight and could not in my opinion, has been brought about and the railroad brotherhoods join to­ be carried on ahead of schedule if what through intolerance, lack of understand­ gether in their offer of voluntary coopera­ the opponents of labor, through the press, ing, and the very existence of prej­ tion in building a national morale that on the floor of thi" House, and over the udice. The arguments in favor of this will spell success in our fight against the air, say is true. The record belies their legislation are not based on facts. invasion of our democratic rights.. Con­ contention. Of course, there were mis­ It might be interesting to note that trast this, if you will, with the condition takes made. But is this great program some thirty-odd bills have been intro­ that existed in France-a country with being accomplished by magic? Is it be­ duced on strike legislation in this ses­ one of the finest and best-equipped cause of the supermen in the employ of sion of Congress. I note particularly armies in the world-trained, they the Government at $1 a year? Is.it be­ that the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. thought, to meet any onslaught of force. cause of the supermen in admirals' and HoFFMAN] has introduced at least eight Yes, they were in position with the Magi­ generals' uniforms? No. It is accom­ pieces of legislation relative to strikes. not line and their well-trained army to plished by the sweat and the blood of the The CONGRESSIONAL RECORD has been meet any onslaught of force, but there American workman, the untiring skill, filled with charges that strikes have-been were those who failed to heed the cry of the willingness to sacrifice, and the loyal the cause of disrupting the national-de­ national morale. There were those who devotion of millions of American laboring fense program. As one great American were shortsighted enough and selfish men's families, American workers whom once said: "Let's look at the record." It enough to feel that the laboring groups we should b,e proud of, American workers might be interesting to note that man­ were beiJ:Ilg too well treated. And in their whom we should be commending for their days lost through strikes in 1941 were own selfish way they made their onslaught loyalty and doing everything that we 19,500,000. At first blush you will say, against the labor groups and with that can to better their station in life. We "What an enormous figure." But then onslaught went the very foundation of shCJuld be doing ·everything that we can as we look further into the facts we find their whole defense-national morale to build tile morale of that great bulwark that man-days lost through injuries, broke down; the Maginot line evaporated of democracy. I am proud of the fact deaths, and permanent disabilities in as a fog before the rays of sunlight. I that no group of citizens in the United 1940 were 233,840,000, and man-days lost beg of you here today-do not crucify States supports the national-defense through illness in 1940 approximated national morale on the cross of antilabor program more enthusiastically than 536,000,000. Through the year of 1940 legislation. Upon your heads will rest the those who are members of union organi­ man-days lost through unemploytpent stigma of defeat if this legislation ever zations. The laboring men of this Na­ amounted to 2,500,000,000. You will becomes a part of the law of the land. tion, union organizations, if you please, readily see that the number of man­ Let us today commend labor, build na­ on the floor of this House and through hours lost through strikes is insignificant tional morale, and avoid what happened · the press of this Nation, have been ac­ when taken into consideration with the in this most distressed country today, the cused of sabotage of the national-defense whole field of labor. nation that should be one of the great program. Sabotage is a relatively recent One of the most important facts-and democratic nations. France today, under term derived from the word "sabot," I want you to mark this well-is that on the heel of dictatorship, is an outstanding which in French means "wooden shoe." November 29, 1941, just a few days ago, · example of how a nation can be crushed, No one knows exactly how th~ word came 0. P. M.'s Labor Division reported that not with force of arms but with the loss into use. Some trace it to a workman only 3 strikes directly involving 1,700 of the most precious thing that democ­ who threw a wooden shoe into a machine workers were hampering defense produc­ racy n.eeds-the high · morale of its to stall it. Whatever the origin of this tion. This, according to 0. P.M., repre­ people. word is, it is accepted that sabotage sents-and I want you to mark this well: Man -days idle during strikes as per-­ means destruction, temporary disabling A new low in number of strikes o{ primary centage of total man-days of work avail­ of machinery, designed by enemy agents defense significance. able for each of the first 6 months of 1941 to weaken the military strength of the I think that the very foundation of the averages only four-tenths of 1 percent. Nation. Is union organizatior.. gtiilty of national-defense program, the very foun­ Yet the charges on the floor of this House sabotage? It certainly is not in the face dation of democracy, if you please, is the made against labor today are that it is of the wonderful record it has made, and high morale of the people of the Nation. causing delay in the execution of the I here and now placard antistrike legis­ .Organized labor and labor in general Nation's defense policies by resorting to lation presented to this House as wooden­ through its record has as one of its pro­ strikes. In the name of the laboring man shoe legislation designed to destroy the grams the building up of morale in the of this Nation I brand such charges as labor movement in this Nation, which in interest of national defense. Labor downright falsehoods and misrepresen­ turn will destroy the national-defense leaders, and especially I want to call at­ tation of the facts. It is unjustifiable for program by breaking down the morale of tention to the C. I. 0., have in their con­ it does not square with the facts. The the great laboring class of people. vention assembly passed resolutions call­ laboring man of this Nation, and organ­ Thinking men of this Nation oppose ing upon all affiliated unions, industrial ized labor in particular, has done every­ this type of legislation, and I have tele­ union councils, and locql unions and in­ thing in its power to promote and expe­ grams from manufacturers' associations dividual members of the C. I. 0. to act at dite national-defense production, and that brand this type of legislation as ex­ once to impress upon their representa­ the record shows that it has succeeded ceedingly unwise and unworkable. tives in Congress the serious danger to far beyond the expectation of reasonable Just recently it has been estimated that American morale to defense production men. arms prices have soared over $2,000,000,- and to our democracy in all the current As we look around this great Nation 000, with the costs still going up. In fact, antilabor bills and to urge instead adop­ we see huge Army cantonments being the rising cost of material has boosted tion of the Kelly bill and favorable con­ constructed far ahead of schedule. We original estimates of the defense costs sideration of long-range proposals em­ see new airports, new naval stations, new over $2,000,000,000 during the last 17 ·bodied in the C. I. 0. industrial-council munition plants, new factories springing months of the defense program. Is this plan. And at this point let me say that up by the hundreds-most of them on because of the increase in wages? Is it President Philip Murray of the C. I. 0. schedule or ahead of schedule. The sea­ because of the increase in the cost of recently offered a concrete suggestion and port towns along the coast are the scene production of strategic materials? No. suggested that the President of the of activity, where warships of all kinds In my opinion, it is because of the out­ United States convene a conference of are being constructed, most of them on rageous prices at which contracts are be­ leaders of industry, organized labor, and schedule or ahead of schedule. ing let. It is because of profiteering and government for the purpose of adopting We have appropriated over $40,000,- racketeering. And we in Congress fiddle a program which would establish the 000,000 and the program js being r.auied while Rome burns. ' The Army, Navy, and necessary machinery for the peaceful to completion through the strength, Marine Commission, lease-lend, and other solution of industrial disputes. Murray through the skill, through the enthusi­ agencies agree that defense costs so far pointed out that· the voluntary accept­ asm and patriotic service of millions have gone up over 25 percent because ance of such a program would assure its upon millions of laboring men in this of increased prices. This represents lost success. Voluntary cooperation is the Nation. The program is the_greatest our money, for which no guns, bullets, planes, 9330 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 2 tanks, or ships will be received. Two alley attacks upon union organizers, and lance, one on top of the other, blood soak .. billions of dollars, if you please. when they appeared before some of the ing into the clothing of those beneath, I know that the catch argument that investigating committees they showed blood dripping from their wounds. She men are drafted for $21 a month into the photographs of weapons taken from said there was terrible screaming and armed forces of the United States while C. I. 0. invaders supposed to have de­ groaning going on in the wagon. Finally, those at home wax fat through exorbi­ scended upon Youngstown, Ohio; and they got to the hospital after having been tant increase in wages are used by anti­ Tom Girdler testified that thousands of bumped. over rough roads and streets. labor advocates. these invaders entered or attempted to Now I want to recall to you the strike­ It might be worthy at this time to call enter the city with armed rifles, shot­ breaking· technique used at the Republic your attention to the fact that if this guns, revolvers, and even dynamite to plant at Canton, Ohio in 1936. Gorillas $2,000,000,000 was saved and turned over attack their employers, and at one point were imported from Buffalo and else­ to the men in the armed forces of the in his testimony before the Post Office where for one premeditated attack on United States, they would receive approx­ Committee hearings he said, "I will hand pickets. An old man, George Milhelm, imately $200 a month apiece for a period you pictures duly attested by the chief of sitting on the front porch of his home, of 1 year. police of Youngstown, showing the weap­ was wounded. A pregnant woman, Mrs. No; it is not labor nor the leaders of ons of war taken from these C. I. 0. Mary Reed, was shot down and left labor who are causing this outrageous forces by public authorities"; but when bleeding in a ditch by a carload of Re­ condition. the La Follette committee disclosed that public police as they drove by her on a Labor has been accused of violence and these were not C. I. 0. organizers and highway 2 miles from the nearest Re­ of causing conditions of disorder and most of the exhibition that was offered public property. She had 25 bullet lawlessness. It might be well in the con­ in evidence was the collection of a gun wounds in her legs and feet. The Re­ sideration of tbis legislation to recall the fancier named S. Russell Gibboney, who public Co. sent her roses and a letter of days that Tom Girdler, chairman of the explained to the committee that he was regret. Republican Steel Corporation, self-ap­ a crack marksman with a collection of . Oh, yes; I could go on and on telling pointed strong man of the independent guns. He tried to get rid of them when you of how this great patriot, Tom Gir­ steel companies, grouped together as he was tipped off that the police were dler, and his crew caused bloodshed and Little Steel to block organized labor. going to raid his home, but the law de­ suffering a.nd still led the public to be­ Under the generalship of Girdler indus­ scended before he could move them. It lieve that they were doing this in the try made its last stand against the Wag­ was these guns that appeared in Gird­ interest of law and order. ner Act and wrote one of the most dis­ ler's famous photographs. The dynamite I recall this to your attention because graceful chapters that has ever been writ­ which Girdler horrified the Post Office of some of the statements that were ten in the industrial history of the United Committee with turned out to be a box made on the floor of tbis House claiming States. Pictures have been painted on of harmless smoke bombs. that the laborers were responsible for the floor of this House of violence in the I could tell you the story also of what violence. picket lines. But very little has been happened in Monroe, Mich., when James Yes, the cause of labor has been writ­ said of the fact that the Republic Steel, Torbic, industrial-relations director for ten in blood. But was it because of the under Girdler's direction, spent $1,950,- the Republic Steel, instigated the organ­ fact that the laboring man wanted 000 to break the picket lines and to break ization of vigilantes and the mob beat trouble? I do not believe so. The labor· strikes. Little bas been said of the bired organizers into uncons(:iousness. At ing man upholds democracy with all his force of company gorillas equipped with Canton, Ohio, where guardsmen attacked strength because it is the only form of tear gas, rifles, pistols, and clubs of the children and bystanders after marching government under which the worker can police officers, and hired spies who har­ into the city arrested C. I. 0. members enjoy freedom and hope for progress. assed and intimidated organizers. Little without provocation and at Massillon, In the present world struggle between has been said of the fact that Republic where a crowd of young people dancing totalitarianism and democracy the Steel bought $80,000 worth of gas, most and feasting at union headquarters after American way of life has life and death of the nauseating rather than mere tear­ an out-day mass meeting, were trapped at stake. Union organization-the inducing variety. Little has been said·of and mowed down by vigilantes while the American Federation of Labor, the C. . I. the largest arsenal of its kind in the chief of police had gone out of town for 0., and the Brotherhood of Railroad country that was used to intimidate and a day and given the vigilantes augmented Trainmen-have favored the strongest shoot down the laboring men. by imported company thugs a free hand. possible national-defense program to the I want to recan to you the attacks on Yes, and there was that fat€ful day in extension of every aid short of war to workers that took the toll of 15 lives and Chicago on Memorial Day where strikers Great Britain. They have officially resulted in hundreds of serious injuries. and strike sympathizers with their wom­ called upon their membership to avoid Pitched battles between laboring men en and children marched across a vacant strikes in defense production industries, and company guards, police, and citizen field at the side of the Republic plant to settle their grievances through con­ mobs were deliberately fomented by Re­ where they proposed to establish a picket ferences and conciliation. I think they public Steel's officials. Men posed as line, only to be met by a force of police. have done a wonderful job. union members in the pay of industrial­ The police opened fire and 40 marchers How does our strike record compare ists, armed with guns, deliberately set up were shot down in the back as they tried with that of England? The actual sta­ fake picket lines and brought about riots to flee. Ten were fatally hurt. Wounded tistics show that in 1940 the strike record and disorder. Then the Obio steel mas­ were not treated decently as they would of England, Canada, and the United ter rose to dramatic heights as he told have been in a war. The whole grizzly States is almost exactly the same. Eng­ stories of property rights being outraged story is contained in the La Follette com­ land and Canada were at war. In each and of his own interest in the welfare of mittee hearings and was told vividly by of the three countries slightly more than his workers. He led the public to believe a motion picture, a film which has been 2 percent of the workers were out on that law and order was breaking down. impounded in the archives of the La Fol­ strike at some time during the year. It He used the press of this Nation to bring lette committee. is rather amazing to look at the figures: about such a thought in the minds of the Several hundred laboring men met in England 2.3 percent; Canada 2.4 percent; public. But when the La Follette CiVil a place called Sam's Place, near the Re­ United States 2.3 percent. And yet there Liberties Committee got around to its public plant. Mayor Kelly announced are those who would tell you that we investigation, it was shown that those in that orderly picketing would be allowed. need antilabor legislation in order to the employ of the antilabor groups were A picket line was established in the front speed up our national-defense program. the most imposing collection of profes­ of the plant. On their way to this point This is a fine record, and this Congress sional sadists, liars, and fanatics ever they were met by a detail of some 250 should not penalize those honest, sincere assembled, not even excepting those as- police equipped with tear gas, some of workers through the enactment of anti· - sembled by the Pinkertons, the Railroad them with ax handles provided by the labor legislation. Imagine, if you please, Audit & Inspection Co., and other profes­ Republic Co. Men were shot down in the state of mind that will be created sional strike-breaking agencies. cold blood without warning. A story is among these loyal, devoted workers Ob, of course, they contended that told, by one of the eye witnesses, that is identified· with the national-defense pro .. they knew nothing of the spies or back- shocking, of 16 men piled in an ambu- gram when they realize that their Con• 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9331 gress-their representatives, the people alike. But this legislation is discrimina­ Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Chairman, I they trust-enacted legislation that tory against the great cause of labor. make the point of order a quorum is not smears them as anti-American and anti­ In closing, let me again reiterate what present. democratic. Do not penalize on the altar I [;aid in a speecl: on the floor of this The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will of the god of vengeance the millions of House some time ago: count. [After counting.] Ninety-four faithful workers because of the fact that In closing, might I again plead with all Members are present, not a quorum. there may be 1 man who has created a those who are truly interested in the preser­ The Clerk will call the roll. vehicle upon which antilaborites may vation of our democracy to be calm, cool, and The Clerk called the roll, and the fol­ ride on toward repressive legislation. collected. Might I especially ask those who lowing Members failed to answer to their The 12,000,000 union-organization men have been intemperate in their statemen'"s to names: in the United States of America will gasp give labor the crepit of at least being loyal, [Roll No. l24] with wonder at the uncalled-for acts of to give the laboring man the credit that he, Arnold Harris, Va. Sabath this Congress if we place repressive legis­ too, loves his country, to help the great labor­ Baldwin Hartley Sacks ing mass of people to become a part of the Bennett Heffernan Sasscer lation on the books. great p:togram of national defense, so that Bolton Hill, Colo. Satterfield I am certain that this legislation pre­ they may truly do their bit as they wish to do Buck Johnson, W.Va. Schaefer, Ill. sented here today is couched in termi­ Buckler, Minn. Kefauver Schuetz it. I do not believe that there is. an un­ Buckley, N.Y. Kelly, Ill. Scott nology that is vague and not understand­ American in a humble laboring man's home Byron Kilburn Scrugham able. According to the language of the in this Nation. We must create in the minds Capozzoli Kirwan Sheridan legislation presented, if in the feverish of the great mass of people the fact that their Casey, Mass. Larrabee Short heat of resenting vicious tactics of an Governmeht is working in their behalf, that· Clark Lesinski Simpson their Government w1ll protect them in the Coffee, Nebr. Lewis Smith, Va. employer 1 man should cry out against right to live and rear their families in an Cole, N. Y. .McArdle Snyder them and because of his remarks the Collins Maas South environment that is comparable to what it Costello Magnuson Stearns, N.H. rest should follow, and leave the plant, he should be in a real, true, democratic nation, Dewey Mahon Stevenson would be smeared as a traitor to his so that they may go on and build civilization Ditter Marcantonio Sumner, Til. Nation. The right of free speech would to the extent that we will remove from this Douglas Mason Thomas, N.J. be completely eradicated from the Bill world that monster we call war. With the Elliott, Calif. May Tiboott laboring class treated fairly, you wm find that Fenton Mitchell Tolan of Rights. Oh, the whole field of labor, Flannagan Myers, Pa. Vincent, Ky. affecting 130,000,000 people, would be the laboring class wm treat industry fairly, Flannery Norton Wasielewski and then government w111 be a regulatory Ford, Leland M. O'Day Weiss crucified because of a few mistakes and body that wit br.ing about the cooperation Ford, Thomas F.O'Leary Wene the personalities of 1 m.an. Their morale that is necessary to bring happiness to man­ Gale Osmers Whelchel would be broken down. They would feel kind. Gerlach Robinson, Utah White that there is nothing to fight for. Hark­ Gilchrist Rogers, Okla. Winter en back to what happened to France and May I call your attention to the fact Grant, Ind. Romjue do not make the same mistake. that I represent a district that produces Accordingly the Committee rose; and The enactment of this antistrike legis­ .two of the most strategic metals in na­ the Speaker having resumed. the chair, lation would, in my opinion, by indirec­ tional defense. In my district are located Mr. CoLE of Maryland, Chairman of the tion and subterfuge by back-door meth­ the large iron ore and copper mines. Committee of the Whole House on the ods repeal the Wagner Act, Norris­ Loyal, honest, true Americans risk their state of the Union, reported that that LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act, the ClaY­ lives day and night, leave their health Committee, having had under considera­ ton Act, and many other fine pieces of down in the depths of a dingy mine. tion the bill H. R. 4139, and finding itself labor legislation. Those men have not participated in any without a quorum, he had directed the strikes. They believe, however, in union roll to be called, when 346 Members We have a propaganda machine known organization. They are honest, true, and as the Committee for Constitutional Gov­ responded to their names, a quorum, and loyal. It is for these men that I plead. he submitted herewith the names of the ernment, incorporated under the laws of They are not un-American. They are the District of Columbia. This organi­ absentees to be spread upon the Journal. not antidemocratic. And I urge you not The SPEAKER. · The Committee will zation has put out a pamphlet known as to place upon them the stigma of un­ America's Future, in which they advo­ resume its sitting. Americanism by forcing upon them a law Mr. MOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 10 cate antistrike legislation and in which that will shackle them in their freedom. they advocate compulsory arbitration. I minutes to the gentleman from Massa­ I plead also for that large group who do chusetts [Mr. GIFFORD]. want to call to the attention of that or­ not belong to organized labor, that un­ ganization that the Supreme Court of Mr. GIFFORD. Mr. Chairman, I have derpaid group. Yes, I plead for the just experienced the good effects of the the United States in the case of Dorchy father and mother of the undernourished v. Kansas (272 U. S.) declared forced cooling-off period that we are to talk family that is now forced to work on the about today. I was told to be ready some arbitration to be unconstitutional. Let W. P. A. for the paltry sum of $44 to $48 me quote from that decision: 2 hours ago, and I now find that even a a month. Where, I ask you, is the ex­ brief 2 hours of waiting is very helpful in A -statute compelling employers and em­ cessive purchasing power that is charged dampening one's enthusiasm. However, ployees to submit their controversies over to th laboring group that there is so wages and hours of labor to state arbitration I have been able to listen to several good is unconstitutional as a part of a system com­ much talk about. Those laborers have speeches, and I wish to comment on them pell1ng employers and employees to continue not seen it. Those laborers do not get it. briefly. Did not the gentleman from in business on terms not of their own making. If there is excessive purchasing pcwer it Michigan [Mr. HooK] "spill .a good deal is placed in the hands of those who have of blood" in those remarks of his? Was That is the supreme law of the land. profiteered on Government contracts. that why he emptied the Chamber? His Here we have those who claim that . As a parting word, may I quote to you ·bursts of oratory, I hope, did not inter­ they are a committee for constitutional the statements of that great commoner, . fere with your reasoning powers, albeit government advocating unconstitutional William Jenn~ngs Bryan, ·when he said: he did select some blood-spilling thrillers. legislation. I know that you men and Do not crush down upon the head of labor Of course, he tried to lay the blame women who belong to this great lawmak­ this crown of thorns. wholly on one side. I do not think he was ing body will not enact unconstitutional overly successful. legislation in this hour of hysteria. I say to you: Do not crucify labor on the The gentleman from Illinois, who pre­ Mounting profits are the shackles of cross of antilabor legislation. Vote down ceded him, interested me. I have not national defense. these bills and give the laboring man of often heard him indulge in outbursts of I note that there is a secret ballot this Nation an opportunity to participate oratory. He has always been so careful called for. Let me call your attention to freely, openly, and voluntarily as free in speech and so sound in his reasoning. the fact that corporate management does Americans in the national defense of the However, he made the subject appear to not have a secret ballot in their elections. country that they love and help protect have even a religious aspect, and I have Employers of this Nation would not ac­ the principles of democracy. been forced to refresh my memory. He cept a provision the violation of which Mr. MOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 10 said that the politicians destroyed Christ. would cause them to go out of business. minutes to the gentleman from Massa­ I recalled my Sunday school lesson and Employer and employee should be treated chusetts [Mr. GIFFORD]. I was distUrbed at my ignorance. I 9332 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 2 thought Pilate said "that he found no differentiate between labor, in its broader no, they must not ·crowd the crafts, lest fault with Him," and that it was the mob sense, and labor unions, as too many of there be too many workers. The -laborer that demanded this crucifixion. I must them are now constituted. I am and who has to accept $4 a day has to pay his now search my Bible for the real truth of always have been a friend ef labor in its neighbor $8 a day to shingle his house the matter. legitimate aims and aspirations. But how because his union demands it. He might I am always interested when one seeks can I be a friend of certain unions which be very willing to work for less. I recaJl a refuge in religion, when logic is want- have taken advantage of ever-increasing that there came to Washington quite ing, I had understood long ago that s6me power to make their own honest mem­ lately a painter who wanted to borrow peopie embrace religion as a "fire-es- bers subservient, often by force, to die­ money of me so he could live here awhile. cape." tataria! methods employed by their lead- He was stranded. I asked, "Can you not Now some of you know about Cape Cod, ers for self-aggrandizement, and to acts get any work?" and he said, "I can get where I come from. I offer a quotation: which are plainly those of racketeers? plenty of work, but I have to get $8 or $9 "If we want to make footprints on the We have three bills here. I have been a day, because I belong to a union." sands of time we must have plenty of studying them. As to the Ramspeck "Why does not the union help you?" "I sand." That locality mentioned has fur- bill-God forgive him-I thought he was do not belong to this particular union. nished me with plenty, and I will now a man of more courage, after hearing They refuse as yet to assist me." scatter it over the Hause, that you may his views on the floor the last few years, As I have pointed out, on a defense job have some, if you should need it. often seemingly bemoaning the condi- $75 in dues were demanded and generally I .have been baptized recently in the tions that exist today in far greater collected, but the union even then re­ contaminated waters of one labor union. degree than formerly. I thought that fused membership to many of them, ex­ This baptism has taught me that I am he would at least flirt with the Smith bill. plaining that they were not real and really speaking and pleading for labor, But at this particular moment he seems qualified craftsmen .. today not for John L. Lewis, the dictator, to have adopted a policy of appeasement. [Here the gavel fell.] or William Green, the man of piety, who It is not a good time for an appeasement Mr. MOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield to allows extortion in union dues, and en- policy when dictatorships are unloosed the gentleman 5 additional minutes. gages in cut-throat jurisdictional quar- upon us. Mr. GIFFORD. There are many here rels. They seem to hate each other, but There is one question that the public more competent than I to explain these the pot calling the kettle black does not · · is acsking, and asking in no uncertain bills. Still I should like to comment interest me at the moment. way, "Have we a Government that can somewhat, although I am not going to I happened to be surrounded recently lay their hands on a man and for $30 assume that I know too much about by some 500 men wanting to work on a a month send him to face shells, gas, and · them. I have read them and tried to defense job, most of them with no money bullets, and jeopardize his life, but can­ understand their different objectives. in their pockets, but who could not drive not persuade others to work 40 hours a I have also read the Walter proposal, · a nail until they had paid a tribute of $75 week at high wages and under pleasant a product of that legal mind of his. I to a union. surroundings?" Shall these not be com- do not suppose many of you will take the Whom am I representing? The people pelled to furnish defense materials to trouble to read all of the Walter bill, but that want to go to work or a union that protect that boy whose life may depend if you did you would find real reason for wants to enrich itself by forced payment upon them? You may dodge this ques­ reflection. However, I fear you will think of extortionate dues? tion, if you like, but it will take more its verbiage too difflcult for us who lack It is not difflcult to arrive at a decision than a John L. Lewis to protect you from enthusiasm for technical legal phrase- after such experiences. an enraged people. ology. . I think if we should have what the ReadS. Burton Heath in the Atlantic Consider the Ramspeck bill with only Smith bill suggests-a secret ballot- Monthly. I have already quoted him. the cooling-off period and the implication labor could extricate itself from intoler- You may think I know but little, but that the Government may seize the plant · able leaders and conditions. We demand when such a one as Mr. Heath speaks the if they do not cool off enough. Even for ourselves in all sorts of elections a public is impressed. Some of you declare compulsory arbitration is not considered secret ballot. We will not let the voters that anyone who dares raise his voice there because it is deemed not constitu­ of our own little bailiwicks at home be ·here in protest is a labor hater or a labor tional. Perhaps it is not constitutional, checked by our local politicians. We pro- baiter. · but much legislation has been declared teet them in every way possible. God paralyze my arm whenever I constitutional recently under the Roose­ We have a Department of Labor set up cease, wherever I am, wherever I live, to velt Supreme Court. It is a convenient at great expense, and we refuse to give do everything I can to find men jobs and refuge to assert that it is not constitu­ that Department the power to demand pay them a fair price for the work they tional when the policy of appeasement is that·a labor union tell about itself. We do. I have always done it, and I pledge uppermost. . do not force them to organize. We do myself always to do it even though Ire­ When John L. Lewis demanded that not· force them to keep or to display main poor. I love the toiler, no matter the President take sides he said, in effect, their books. Even their own members what some of you may pretend to think. "You have supped at labor's table, and may not know how their leaders spend "But are the dignities and the preroga­ now when we are in deadly embrace with the funds. Y~t you expect the great tives of a few labor leaders more impor­ our enemies, the A. F. of L., we demand Department of Labor to adjust strikes tant than the preservation of democ­ that you take our side." The President and prevent irregularities, when you give racy?" Thus questions Mr. Heath in be­ replied, "A plague on both your houses." that Department no power to demand half of the Nation. That was the most courageous thing I information from those organizations. Such are the questions that are being have heard our President say yet in labor ·It does seem ridiculous in the extreme. asked. Let William Green and his assa- matters. Yet it was enough for John L. I have suffered the opposition of so- ciates protest. Of course they want no Lewis to divorce himself from the former called labor unions in nearly every elec- supervision or restraint. The record bonds between himself and the President. tion for 20 years. Labor generally in my shows that the A. F. of L. unions have It is freely stated that he now hates his city has opposed me. We all know there carried jurisdictional strike excesses even President. Is that possible, after all that unless you are 100 percent with further than the C. I. 0. The craft the President has done for him or·allowed labor leaders, they will not support you. unions not only quarrel with the indus­ him to do against the public's interest? Ninety-nine percent is not enough, as is trial unions, but they spend a lot o(time But John L. Lewis made his $486,000 con­ often stated. Do I blame the labor lead- needed to fight Hitler fighting those tribution. It was a pretty good supper ers? No; it is their job to elect only within their own family circle. Is it right he served to his ·President. He thought those who are 100 percent subservient. to charge $360 to jojn an electrician's he had served all the courses. He thought I feel very friendly with many of the union? Did not even Mrs. Roosevelt cry his guest would certainly reciprocate labor leaders in my district. For 20 long · a little about that? It seems that she did. when he came to a "deadly embrace" years I have told them I have not voted Did she not think that was a little high? · with the A. F. of L. He seemed to have for any labor legislation that they could Do you not think that most of those dues a fairly good reason for making his de­ recall, principally because we have not · are a little high? And worse than that, ·mand. had any. Today we are forced to meet the young men who want to learn a trade, As I peer into the future, "It is not yet an issue. I find myself constrained to are they generally allowed to do so? Oh, to be seen that for the present John L. 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-}JOUSE 9333 -Lewis will embrace Mr. William Green." WILL CONGRESS REPRESENT THE PEOPLE for weeks have been denied a charter by I do not recall the exact lines of this Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Chairman, I ask the A. F. of L., and who have been re­ doggerel. unanimous consent to revise and extend quired to pay dues and seek membership The Congress shoUld now · come to the my remarks. in several organizations, in order to carry rescue of our President, although Lewis' The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection? on their work. contribution was ·accepted. Our Presi­ There was no objection. There is a labor lobby in Washington. dent could not be bribed. There is an old Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Chairman, there Their point is that we do not need any adage, "He would not accept a bribe but is urgent, in fact, vital need for con­ legislation. Some of us suspect at times stretches forth his hand." Other organi­ certed, effective action by Congress which that the administration does not want zations and other businesses- are forced will solve the so-called labor problem. any effective labor legislation. That to display their books. They are even Overlong· this country has su1Iered be­ labor lobby is here and under one excuse harassed by their own Government. But cause of the refusal of Congress to take or another, perhaps by the device of hav­ these union leaders may organize and effective action to lessen the causes of ing adopted many amendments, perhaps terrorize their own membership. They labor disputes. through the device of creating discord may thumb their noses even at our The passage of the National Labor Re­ in the ranks of those who want legisla­ Labor Department if it should attempt to lations Act was a step in that direction, tion, perhaps by some little group, favor­ demand information or order them to but unfortunately for all, although span- ing first one bill and then another, they desist. Yes; let us protect the men who . sored and hailed by organized labor as can so divide the membership of the toil. Our sympathy is with the man who· labor's magna carta, it possessed inher­ House that we will get nothing at all at toils, but our sympathy is to get him out ent defects, which, through misinterpre­ the end of our labors. We .may have the of the clutches of those dictators who tation and maladministration of the act same situation develop with reference now have him in their grasp. If I do not itself, not· only deprived industry of to this bill that we had with the wage­ represent the larger number of workers, rights heretofore considered fundamen­ and-hour bill, nothing accomplished. then I am indeed very much misinformed. tal but gave to greedy and ambitious in­ You cannot make me believe that the Do you think those mine workers;when dividuals power which was used in the American worker does not desire to work. their own President of the United States end to deprive employees themselves of I am firmly convinced that if he has an appealed to them and their patriotism, the very rights which the act was passed opportunity, the high wages being paid did not wish to respond quickly and to protect. today will induce him to go back to his favorably? Do you suppose a majority of Unfortunately the misinterpretation job if he can do so unmolested. I believe those mine workers did not want to go to and maladministration of the act by the that ihe wives who are serving in the work at the request of the President? Board and by the courts led to a situa­ kitchens at home will tell the old man Indeed they cUd, but they found them­ tion where both of the leaders of or­ when he wants to go on strike, if he is so selves under a dictator leadership like ganized labor, both Mr. Lewis and Mr. foolish as to go on strike when condi­ unto Hitler's and dared only to obey. I Green, condemned in no uncertain terms tions are satisfactory, so foolish as to go would feel sad, indeed, if their "free the manner in which the act was being on strike over a jurisdictional question, choice of action" would have been to fol­ applied and the results which were being I believe that good housewife, that mother low the dictator rather than the appeal produced. of the children will say, "Now, John, you to their patriotism by the President of Before we can have abiding peace in just go back to work and get that check their country. As to the terrorism of the industrial relations; before the rights of which brings in our groceries, which buys picket lines, does even the Smith bill employees and employers and the pub­ the fuel and pays the rent or makes the seem effective? It would be unconstitu­ lic-and the rights of the public so far payment on the home, buys the books for tional to attempt to prevent picketing. seem to have been ignored-are secure, the kids, and once in a while takes us We can regulate it if we have the courage we must have amendments to the Na­ to a picture show." Is not that the sit­ to do it. Many helpless workers may be tional Labor Relations Act which will uation? Is not that what will happen? pleading today that you now free them make it fair and just,' not only to em­ So these men down in this lobby say from the chains forged by some of their ployees but to employer and to the public. there is no need for legislation. That leaders. Let labor i:>eware of all forms of As always when you have power, al­ might be true if our laws were enforced. dictatorship. Germany furnishes the most unlimited power, and where you But they have not been enforced, they most startling example. I has one large have money in large amounts, the greedy are not being enforced-the laws which union called the Labor Front and under ones, the avaricious ones, come in. When protect citizens in their right to work. complete control of Hitler. Sad, indeed, the N. L. R. A. went into effect, when it The gentleman from Virginia [Mr. is the lot of the worker under that head. was administered in such a manner that SMITH] this morning said there was a. The CHAIRMAN. The time of the there :flowed into the treasury of the God-given right to work. I will go -one gentleman from Massachusetts has again union organizations, not thousands, not step further. When the Lord caught Eve expired. hundreds of thousands of dollars, but giving that apple to Adam do you remem­ millions o_f dollars, as might have been ber what happened? The Lord fired Mr. MOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield the anticipated, as we might have foreseen, them out of the Garden of Eden. He gentleman 2 additional minutes. all· of the grafters and all of the boot­ sent the snake out with him, too. Do you - Mr. GIFFORD. Let me read to you an leggers who had been getting rich under remember what he told Adam? "In the extract from a recent address by Dr. the National Prohibition Act, switched sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread Ludwig Hamburger: over and wormed themselves into the till thou return unto the ground." For all practical purposes the German unions, not becatise they loved labor, but But long ago these so-called leaders, worker is in the position of a slave. Contrary because they saw there, under the pro­ who do not represent anybody except to what we have bel1eved, the institution of visions of that law, an opportunity to themselves in many cases, who must have slavery has not been outllved. What has been enrich themselves. Labor did not ask a.n issue if they are to continue in busi­ outlived is our concept of slave labor. This concept has been derived from private owner­ them in; it did not invite them. It does ness, they say to the man who the Lord ship of labor. It has to be brought up to not profit-that is, the individual work­ told to work, they say to the man whose date; it needs to be adjusted to the Nazi ers do not profit-by the operation of wife wants him to get busy and bring in reality of state ownership of labor. these grafters, but they muscled in, and that check every 2 weeks or every month, they are chiseling the organizations out they say to the kids who want the old I wish you might read his whole ad­ of a large part of the funds which are man to go ahead and work so they can dress. We must beware of dictatorship, collected under the name of organized have a football and a pair of skates and whether by government or organization. labor. a few other things now and then, these Again I appeal to you Members. Show a That act has not served its purpose. organizers say to that husband and fa­ little courage. Let us represent the We all know that, that is, those of us ther, "Oh, no; you can't work until you people today. who have read the decisions of the courts, ·buy this license from me." So they col­ I yield back the remainder of my time. and those of us who have listened to the lect. Like those fellows who were recently Mr. MOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 20 complaints of the laboring man himself, convicted for their activities on the west minutes to the gentleman from Michigan and I cite, as an example, the complaint coast, Bioff and Brown, they collect thou­ [Mr. HOFFMAN], of the welders on the west coast, who sands-yes; in that case more than LXXXVll--589 9334 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE· DECEMBER 2 $100,000 which they shoved into their pulsion, about mediation. These lead­ We have heard much of late about na­ own pockets. ers are now asking the administration to tional unity. We have heard a great deal It is to stop those practices that we call another conference in an effort to about the virtue of mediation. We have need legislation. iron out all the present dim.culties. · bee)l told time and again that the way As was stated yesterday by the gentle· May I be so bold as to suggest that the to settle a question is to sit down around man from Virginia [Mr. SMITH·l-see people are sick and tired of conferences, the conference table and there reach a RECORD, pages £1298-9299-the public is of committee meetings, of talking. They conclusion. overwhelmingly convinced that the the­ want action. In the sit-down strikes, the parties O':y that organized labor can do no Certain individuals in this House who were compelled by moral suasion to re­ wrong, needs no regulation, is fallacious. conscientiously believe there is no need main in almost continuous session for For more than 4 years, on the floor of for labor legislation; others who yield to days at a tinle. In the recent threatened this House, it has been my privilege to the advice of organized labor's leaders; railroad strike, the papers tell us that point out the ever-increasing danger still others who are motivated by other there was a continuous session lasting growing out of the unlawful acts of cer­ considerations, believe that, by dividing more than 30 hours and continuing until tain labor leaders, the failure of certain the forces of those who wish to take ef­ the dispute was settled. State and Federal om.cials to enforce our fective action now, that action can be Because there are 435 Members of the laws, to protect the constitutional rights defeated. House, it is obvious that continuous ses­ of our citizens: There will be at least four complete sions would be apt to contribute more The present emergency, coupled with bills before the House for discussion. As toward another tower of Babel than to the activities of subversive groups, power­ we all know, there is the Vinson bili, the a worth-while solution of the issue. mad, ambitious labor politicians, and the Ramspeck bill, the Smith bill, the Walter But, come peace or war, we must have collection of millions of dollars from bill,· and in the background there is the production. Come prosperity or national helpless workers by greedy and avaricious Hunter bill, the Bridges bill, which I in­ bankruptcy, if we are to continue to exist individuals masquerading as friends of troduced in the House with· two added as a nation under a constitutional form labor has focused the attention of the provisions, the Connally bill, many oth­ of government in the exercise of the public upon the need for adequate action ers, among which are several introduced liberties and the freedoms which we have by this Congress. by myself. heretofore known, we must have unity on Our failure to act is the cause of wide­ the economic front. sprP.&.d criticism; criticism which comes The first four bills have been ade­ To my mind, there is just one way to not only from editorial writers, from quately explained to the membership by get proper and adequate labor legislation columnists, whose views might well be the gentlemen wbo §ponsor them. The out of this House at this time; to get disregarded were they not a reflection gentleman from Virginia [Mr. SMITH] legislation which will protect organiz.ed of the opinions held by our constitu­ set forth concisely but clearly the provi­ labor, protect the individual worker, pro­ E:mts-but direct from our home folks. sions of the Smith bill on yesterday. tect the consumer and the National Overlong the people have been plead­ You will find his observations on pages Government. ing for relief; long have they been ask­ 9298-9299 of the RE.CORD. I want to answer this charge of parti­ ing that Congress do something. Now The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. sanship that has been hurled at us of they are demanding that we take action. VINSON] did likewise with reference to the minority so often from the majority Often of late, by men who are classed his bill, and you will find his remarks on side. The majority side, after all, is re­ here in the House as labor leaders-men pp,ges 9300 and 9301 of yesterday's sponsible for legislation. You know, as like the gentleman from Georgia rMr. RECORD. was cited by the gentleman from Vir­ RAMSPECKJ-there has been voiced the The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. ginia [Mr. SMITH] this morning, all the thought that, unless this Congress takes RAMSPECK] made a statement with ref­ polls show that the people want action. action to alleviate the present situation e:·ence to his bill, and his remarks will You can go along, if you wish, with the many of the present Members of Con­ be found on pages 9306-9311 of yester­ lobby from the C. I. 0. or the A. F. of L. gress will not be here after the· next day's RECORD. You can go along with some of the wild election~ The bill introduced by the gentleman and woolly new dealers. You can for­ We are elected to represent the people from Pennsylvania [Mr. WALTER] ap­ sake your people at home if you wish. and, if we do not truly and faithfully pears in full at pages 9301-9302 of You can go back on the principles of the and effectively represent them, we should yesterday's RECORD. At considerable great Democratic Party if you wish, but 'be retired from om.ce at the very first length, clearly and in detail, with spe­ in this coming election you will have to ·election. cific cases illustrating the need for the answer to the people for your conduct. Organized labor, 10,000,000 strong, various provisions of his bill, the gentle­ Once before I called attention to the fact through leaders, through spokesmen who, man from Pennsylvania made and has ·that there was an election, and certain I assert, do not at the moment..represent 1 placed in.the RECORD a statement-pages . smart newspaper writers said I was ap­ the desires of the rank and .file, are here l 9302-9306-the _ re.ading of which will pealing to . you to forget your country; in Washington·demanding .that W£ do riot 1 ·carry conviction to every inquiring mind. 1 that I was appealing to your selfishness. ·act on labor legislation. - The statements of these gentlemen and , ~Those writ.er.s dici not know what .th~y, We are .threatened with political re- · the discussion which followed on the floor 1 .were writing about. Do they not know ·prisals -if we enact . any law- which,_ will · ~of the House are sum.cient to advise every ! that the chief busjness, .the principal. curtail the privileges or the actions of Member of the merits of each bill; hence business, in fact, the only business of a some labor organizers and om.cials. there is no need to repeat what has been I Congressman, is to represent his people, But let me tell you this, that the work­ said. and that his people should cut off his _ingmen of America desire to work. They I only wish to refer to the ·Ramspeck 1 political head the. moment he forsakes want the opportunity to earn the high bill, which came from the Labor Com­ them and follows o:fi.after some..lobbyist:? wages which are now being. paid. They mittee, of which I am.a member. Tha_t .I am appealing not to your selfishness. desire as well to serve their country by bill does not add much, if anything, to . I am appealing to you to follow the doing -their utmost for the national­ the present met,hod· of procedure which wishes of your constituents, the new~ .defense program. has been followed in an effort to solve­ paper writers to the contrary notwitlli­ Make no mistake about it. The work­ our trouble. It merely provides for talk . standing. That is the point. Do what ers of America, organized and unorgan­ and more talk and more talk, with a so­ your constituents; under our . system, ized, want their rights restored to them, called cooling-off period while the talk is think you ought to do. Unless they are :and the keystone in the arch upon which going on, and with the further provision ·asking you to vote for vicious legislation rests our whole existence is that of the that in the end, if the parties cannot ar­ to betray the country, to forsake the . unqualified right of the individual te> rive at an agreement and there is an Constitution, you should represent them, work. interruption in defense work, the Presi­ follow their wishes, should you not? This administration and the present dent shall take over the plant. The tak­ Now, here is the proposition I want to .labor leaders who are here lobbying "ing over of private indw:itry is a step to­ make to my Democrat friends, if I have against any und all legislation affecting word socialism, which I am loath to any. That is this: You have · accused labor have had much to say about com- sanction. us on the Republican ·side of playing 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9335 politics. You and the labor leaders have know you have, if you have the courage to the dues were excessive and struck . talked loud and continuously about col­ write a bill, which I have sometimes against their own union. Then the Navy lective bargaining, about mediation, doubted in the past, hop to it, bring it in was called upon,, or, rather, Mr. Davis about conciliation, about sitting down here, and you will not find any partisan­ was called upon, to do the very thing­ around the council table and solving the ship over on our side. that is, compel the men to pay their questions which were before us. I agree Mr. MOTT. Mr. Chairman, will the dues-which was the thing Mr. Hill would with all of that. That is the procedure gentleman yield? · not do. Mr. Hill was fired, the plant was we should follow in a representative re­ Mr. HOFFMAN. I yield. seized because he would not fire the publican form of government. Are you Mr. MOTT. I am very much inter­ men who would not pay union dues; today willing to accept that procedure? ested in what the gentleman sajd about Then Mr. Davis, acting for the Govern­ I want to advance this proposition to these bills and the observation he made ment, was called upon by the union to do you today. at the opening of his remarks to the the very thing-tne refusal of which I am a Republican. I am proud of that effect that in his opinion the immediate caused the firing of Hill, the seizure of fact. I have criticized this administra­ problem before us for consideration was the plant. tion time and again. I have offered what the problem of finding a way, if possible, Mr. MOTT. Now, may I make a fur­ I considered to be constructive legisla­ to prevent strikes, lock-outs, and other ther inquiry? tion. Today, as the situation confronts stoppages in defense industries. I am Mr. HOFFMAN. Certainly. us, we have these four bills, all intro­ asking the gentleman this question not Mr. MOTT. I am familiar with the duced by, all the brain children of, Dem­ only because he has read all of the pend­ gentleman's views in that regard as is ocrats. All these gentlemen who have ing bills on this subject, but because no · nearly everybody else in this body and I introduced these bills, who have spoken one has displayed a greater interest in concur generally in them. The gentle­ in their behalf, have long been recog­ labor disputes in this body than the gen­ man has already stated that the imme­ nized as regular, working, effective mem­ tleman, and nobody has talked so much diate problem here to be solved is the bers of the Democratic organization. about it-- prevention of strikes, lock-outs, and other I for one now say to this House let the Mr. HOFFMAN. And to so little pur­ stoppages in defense industry. I am ask­ House recess for a few hours or a day. pose. ing the gentleman if he does not believe Let these four gentlemen, the gentleman Mr. MOTT. No; I do not say that. I it would be better to go ahead and settle from Virginia [Mr. SMITH], the two gen­ will get right to the point. I am asking that particular question and then try to tlemen from Georgia [Mr. VINSON and this question. He has read the Vinson arrive at a solution of the other phase of Mr. RAMSPECKJ, and the gentleman from substitute bill, of course. · this labor trouble, namely, the labor­ Pennsylvania [Mr. WALTER] go into con­ Mr. HOFFMAN. And listened to the union racketeering, by amendment to ference, compromise the differences gentleman's explanation of it. labor-union acts, such as the National which exist between their bills and bring Mr. MOTT. I want to ask the gentle­ Labor Relations Act and other acts o·f forth a measure which will be in the in­ man if in his opinion the provisions of that kind, and place that jurisdiction terests of the Nation, of the people of the the Vinson bill go far enough to attain where it belongs, in the Labor Depart­ Nation as a whole. And then I, for one, the objectives sought-that is, to prevent ment, instead of putting all of these having confidence in their ability, in their strikes in defense industry-and if he remedies in one bill, the primary objective integrity, in their judgment, will vote for does not think so, in what respect he of which is to prevent stoppages in de­ the measure upon which they agree. r It thinks the Vinson bill should be fense industry? is my conviction that the majority of the amended? Mr. HOFFMAN. That might be true Republicans will go along and support a Mr. HOFFMAN. In my judgment, no were it not for the situation to which the measure of that kind. bill should be limiteJ to the present emer­ gentleman from Virginia [Mr. SMITH] It is my prediction that, unless some gency situation. We need legislation referred this morning. He stated that he such course as that is followed, unless which will protect the individual worker bad offered amendments to appropria­ there is unity on the majority side, the after the war is over. Again, there is no tion bills to correct some of these high­ will of the people will be thwarted and provision in the Vinson bill, as I recall, handed practices, to correct something Congress will recess with little, if any­ which has anything to do with a secret radically and criminally wrong. I have thing, to its credit, and the Peglers of ballot before strikes are called. Am I in made the same effort, but we have never the Nation will once more refiect in no error? been able to get anywhere. For 4 years complimentary terms the disgust of our Mr. MOTT. No; the gentleman is cor­ I have offered amendments which would people because of our failure to represent rect. protect the American citizen in his funda­ them. Mr. HOFFMAN. There should be such mental right, his unqualified right, to If you believe in conciliation, in me­ a provision. Again, there is no provision work where he could find a job, and I diation, do not forget that in the sit­ in the Vinson bill which has anything to have gotten just absolutely nowhere. down strikes they were in almost con­ do with the accounting of union funds. Here is an opportunity, because atten­ tinuous session day after day. They Am I correct? tion is focused on this situation, to get were in continuous session for more than Mr. HOTT. The gentleman is cor­ some legislation which will be effective. 30 hours in an effort to settle the rail~ rect. I have suggested a mediation-arbitration­ way situation and got good results. So Mr. HOFFMAN. There should be conciliation -collective-bargaining board, I say to you if you believe in those things such an accounting. And there is no made up of leading Democrats who are I have just mentioned, if you think there provision in the Vinson bill which pro­ the authors of the proposed legislation. is any virtue in sitting down around the vides for an enforcement, if I read it cor­ You have these four Democrats over table and reasoning with each other, rectly, of the conclusions arrived at by there, all of them fine men; the integrity coming to a conclusion, let the House the Mediation Board. Am I correct? of none has ever been question. I will take a short recess, a few hours if you Mr. MOTT. The gentleman is cor­ go along. There are 435 of us. We all need them, a day if you need it. We rect. have our pet bills. I have one or two. have all had opportunity to express our Mr. HOFFMAN. Because it is said The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. views. Let these four men go off and that under the lend-lease bill the Presi­ LANDIS] has one, the gentleman from write a bill. You know the need for the dent can take over plants. In my judg­ Ohio [Mr. HUNTER] has one, the gentle­ legislation. Let these four men go off ment, that is not proper or constitutional man from Indiana [Mr. HALLECK] has by themselves and write a bill, and ' I as procedure. You remember he took over one. On your side you have Members a Republican will support it and do an I a plant recently at Bendix, in New Jersey, with bills. Each of us has been working can to get you votes over on this side. because Mr. Hill, the president of the fo~ our particular hobby. I will throw Now, what have you to say about playing concern, would not agree to employ only mine in the wastebasket. Go ahead on partisan politics when I, a Republican, am union men who were up in their dues. . your side and do something. Is that not willing to go along with four Democrats? The Navy took it over; then they em- i fair enough? Is that not fair enough There is your board of arbitration, there played only those who had paid their · coming from ·a Republican who wants is your collective bargaining, there is your dues, which, to my mind, is a vicious to see the New Deal sent to the bottom conciliation and mediation. Now, if you requirement. It ran along a few days of the sea? Is that not fair enough com­ have the ability to write a bill, and I and then some of the union men thought ing from a Republican who hopes the 9336 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 2 New Deal will be completely thrown out public did not want. I do not think it country. In most, I think in every case in the next election? Is it not charitable, will control or prevent inflation. I do not in which I was connected with a corpo­ generous enough to say, "Come on, you think it will hold down the cost of liv­ ration, I finally succeeded in getting those Democrats, write your bill and I will go ing. I do not think any good will come figures published. I thought it was good along with you?" What is your answer? out of the bill as it left the House of business. I thought it created confidence The country is waiting to hear. Representatives last week, so . I voted in the corporate structures of our coun­ [Here the gavel fell.] against it. try. I thought it promoted followers of Mr. MOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 20 In approaching the pending question, the capitalistic-private enterprise, pri­ minutes to the gentleman from Michigan I do not want to vote for or against the vate - management, private - ownership [Mr. CRAWFORD]. Ramspeck bill in its present form or the system, and I believe that today. I just Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. Chairman, the Vinson bill in its present form. I just do would not think of heading a corporation latest statistics wh:ch I can obtain show not like to have anything to do with or being an important officer in a corpo­ that there are about 55,000,000 people on such proposals. Both of them in their ration today with its stock listed that the pay rolls of this country and the Gov­ present form are awfully cheap to be refused to publish its statistir>al infor­ ernment. In round figures there are brought before the House and before the mation to the public. about 52,000,000 engaged in agriculture, country at. this particular time. The . I cannot understand why the labor industry, s~rvice, and transportation. In gentlem.an from Georgia [Mr. VINSON] unions have failed to insist voluntarily round figures there are a fraction over has given me to understand that he will upon the public's having this information. 40,000,000 nonagricultural pay-rollees in make a serious effort to materially alter If I were directing the fortunes of a labor the United States. The figures also show . one or the other or both bills in order union I would not permit a Congress to that there are about 10,420,000 of that to make them somewhat decent. · I have stand up here and say some of the things 40,000,000 engaged as workers on the not talked with the gentleman from that have been said in the last 48 hours, farms. As I view the picture, we will at­ Georgia [Mr. RAMSPECK] about his bill, because I would beat them to the gun. tain a total of between 56,000,000 and 60,- although I listened very carefully to what i would say, "Sure, you can have all of 000,000 pay-rollees in agriculture and in­ he had to say yesterday, and from what my information any time _you want it," dustry by the time we reach the pinnacle he had to say I do not think his heart is and I would sell that idea to my members of the wartime production. back of his bill. I do not think the ·Pres­ if there was any way I possibly could. Mr. RABAUT. . Will the gentleman ident wants any of these ·bills enacted That is the way I would go about it. yield? into law. I think he put himself in the . If I were at the head of a iabor union, - Mr. CRAWFORD. I yield to the gen­ hole when he sent the labor letter up I thihk .in sheer decency and· for the tleman from Michigan. here the other day on the neutrality bill, preservation of my union and my stand­ Mr. RABAUT. How many did the and he wants to get out of that hole. He Ing in the co:mmuiJ.ity, I would fix it so gentleman say there were in defense in­ hopes the Congress of the United States that none of my members injured any dustries? · will pull him out one way ·or another if person who wanted to work. I would Mr. CRAWFORD. ·I did not mention he Gan be pulled out. ~ try to maintain peaceful picketing and the defense industries. In other words, if I am going to vote try to eliminate all types of picketing Mr. RABAUT. What was the first fig­ for labor legislation at this time, I want that are not peaceful. I think in the ure the gentleman gave? .something with teeth in it. If I am going long run I would gain more support for Mr. CRAWFORD. Total about 55,- to vote against a bill that moves in this the labor union, ·I think I would have a 000,000. direction I want to· vote against a bill hig'her standing for my group in the long Mr. RABAUT. Was that the gentle­ that has got something in it so that when run than they will ever gain in any other man's figure? I go back home· I can tell the people way. Mr. CRAWFORD. Yes. what I did. As I read the Smith bill, it We are engaged in this national-de­ Mr. Chairman, it seems to me that at has teeth in it. I think it has alligator fense program, or war program, I prefer least 5,000,000 additional female workers teeth in it. I think it has teeth as long to call it. Certainly we are going· to will be called into this under.taking be­ as the man-eating clams' that yeti get ·sl>end $100,000,~00,000 on the program. fore we reach the top of employment in out of the far .eastern Paciflc, and those There are no ifs, ands, or· buts, about the United States. .There are .probably are about the most terrible teeth I have that. We have gpmi so far down the line between ten and fifteen million of. those ever seen. now that you could not cut off the _spigot 40,000,000 workers who are members of When you read the Smith bill on pages quick enough to prevent the expenditure so-called unions, and when I say "so­ 6 and 7 where. an individual who violates of $100,000,000,000. My mind is recon:. called" I say that respectfully, because some of these provisions loses all ~tand­ ciled to the fact that we are going ·to we know what the union organizations ing under the National Labor Relations spend directly and indirectly $150,000,- are and the good they bring. Act, all standing insofar as relief as­ 000,000 as a _minimum on today's p:fice We have had lots of letters, we have _sistance is concerned, all standing under 'level, and if the price level goes up 25 or had many press and radio comments and titles III and IX of the Social Security 50 percent I think we will rapidly move speeches over the country about legisla­ Act, I am telling you when you lose those toward a $200,000,000,000 expenditure. tion which will do something about privileges you are losing something. The people of this country are cer­ strikes. I have received letters and other That is what I call teeth. You read the tainly dissatisfied with the things that Members have received them. In my bill and you will see why· an individual are going on. I do not know anybody in home town, as best I can determine, might lose those privileges. Going over my district who has attacked labor as .there are something like 25,000 or 26,000 to page 7 of the Smith bill, you will such. I said a while ago there are about pay-rollees, most all of them members find some additional teeth. 25,000 A. F. of L. and C. I. 0. workers in of the C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. organiza­ Years ago when I left the farm I was my home town. If you went out there tions. If I ever had that labor vote as apout 27 years of age, that is, whe.n I and attacked labor in that home town of my support, I do not know when it was, discontinued farm stoop labor and first ·mine you would have to attack prac­ ·but I have no ground to complain about went into industry, and the most amaz­ tically every citizen in the city. I have that whatsoever. The Members of this ing thing I found in the industrial s~t-up not had any letters attacking labor, as .House know how I have voted -on labor .was the situation where corporations. re­ the gentleman from Illinois tr-ied to indi­ legislation, what I have said, and what fused to publish their financial state­ cate here today, I think he· set up two I have not said about labor activities. ments, showing the operating results and straw men and knocked both of them We are confronted here with three or their financial position to their stock­ into smithereens. 'four very interesting legislative pro­ holders and to the interested public The people in my district are friendly posals. Last week I voted against the which some day might be stockholders to labor .because practically everybody price-control bill because I felt that bill in those corporations. out there performs more or less stoop was a sham, a shadow, and a subterfuge. . For almost 20 years I carried on a run­ labor. We do not have colored people I felt it was unfair to pay-rollees, agri­ ning tlght with corporations, insisting up there in a number of consequence to cultural opera-tors, and agricultural -that their managements, that :1.5, their do stoop labor. We perform stoop labor workers. I think this House handed the -boards of . directors,- publish . those vital . in my home. We do not have,any maid public something last week which the bits of information to the public o~ this ~ervants or 1llan se~vants ~bout ~~ home. 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9337 We scrub the floors, my wife and I. We You take the panels and the boards Mr. VINSON of Georgia. I do not in­ have an 8-year-old boy and we are teach­ that are provided for under the Rams­ tend to offer such an amendment, but, ing him to scrub tbe floors. We wash peck bill, and the interference one with of course, I cannot preclude any other the dishes, we carry out the ashes, we fill another and the way they mix in, and Member from offering it. up the oil burners. · I have a coal furnace what are you going to get out of that? Mr. MOTT. Mr. Chairman, will the in the basement aud an oil bUrner on -the Let us look at the proposition of tak­ gentleman yield? first floor. · Most of the time you will ing over these plants for a minute. You Mr. CRAWFORD. I yield to the gen- find us washing the automobile. have section 9 of the Selective Service tleman. · We grew up that way and we expect to Act and that has a lot to say about Mr. MOTT. Did I understand the die that way, and I make no apologies taking over plants. You have another gentleman to say that his objection to for it. I -think you can draw tremendous bill which we passed here last October the Ramspeck bill was that it did pro­ dividends from performing a little stoop 16, 1941, Public, No. 274, which has to do vide for the taking over of plants? labor once in a while. It has never hurt wnh the taking over of plants. We are Mr. CRAWFORD. No; I did not say me. I have seven brothers, and it has bringing in four bills here today, more that. The Ramspeck bill does carry that never hurt them. All of them that are or less, having to do with the taking over provision and the Smith bill carries that living except me are today engaged in of plants. When the Government goes provision, and our friend who has just performing stoop labor. We are a fam­ out here and takes over a plant, and ·spoken has indicated that he is not going ily of laborers as far back as I can trace when the President or the Board, or who­ to offer it to his bill and points out that the family. And, iet me assure you, this ever -it is in charge, hands those plants such a provision is already in two laws war will bring millions of our people back back to the private owners, what shape approved by the Congress. to a type of labor with which they are are those plants to be in? Where are - Mr. VINSON of Georgia. The gentle­ not now acquainted. That i~ just about the customers to be? What is to be man is in error. I stated that in two in­ my attitude on this labor situation. the position of the capital structure? stances the President has taken over a If the people of this country want the Of course, these proposals provide that plant and therefore I assumed there Wagner Labor Relations Act materially a fair and just price shall be paid, but was some law permitting him to do so ·altered under conditions such as we now what is a plant worth to me if you pay and therefore there is no need to write face ~.s a result of this war participation, me a fair and just price or the replace­ it into a bill. lt may be quite a good thing for Congress able value, say, 4 years from now, if [Here the gavel fell.J to do something about it, but I think it the business is all gone, the organization Mr. MOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1s about time we should go at it seriously. shot, the assets dissipated in the mean­ the gentleman from Michigan 5 addi­ I do not believe these bills that are pre­ time, the amortization on the mortgage tional minutes. sented to us, outside of the Landis and Mr. CRAWFORD. We have acted on not met, and so on down the line? You two proposals heretofore which are now Smith. bills-! am referring to these four read section 9 of the Selective Service bills only-are at all serious in their Act and see if you would like to have law, both of which carried that very approach. one of your- plants taken over under provision and since their enactment the . , I believe the so-called laborers in my that provision. I think we are pussy­ President has functioned in the taking :home town will go along wlth the Smith footing around here, and I do not think over of plants. bill, for instance, in the long run. They we have written into this bill a sufficient Mr. MOTT. Does the gentleman con­ might not go along with it in the next set of specifications to satisfy-and cur in the statement of the chairman of election, but what has that to do ·with it? when I say "satisfy" I mean equitably the Naval Affairs Committee that in the It does not, for the country's sake, satisfy-the people whose plants are to ·circumstances there is no need of put­ amount to a hill of beans whether I am be taken over. ting into the Vinson substitute bill a ' returned to Congress in the n.ext election Mr. BATES of Massachusetts. Mr. provision for taking over plants, be­ or whether I go back to some other work. cause the President already has that au­ Chairman, will the gentleman yield? thority under the law? The industries in which I now have Mr. CRAWFORD. I yield. to the gen­ my savings invested number four. Two Mr. CRAWFORD. I think the state­ of them are highly organized with the tleman. ment of the gentlemen is sound because C. I. 0. and the other t.wo are what Mr. BATES of Massachusetts. I think the Ramspeck bill refers to Public, No. 783 might be called open shops. So there the gentleman made the statement that of the Seventy-sixth Congress, section 9 is no reason why I should take any side practically all the bills contain a pro­ of the Selective Service Act with reference as between open or closed shops in my vision for taking over the plants. The to the taking over of plants and if it iS personal business. Vinson bill contains no such provision. ·already in that law in section 9 of the Mr. CRAWFORD. I understand the I have no hatred for Mr. John L. Lewis, Selective Service Act, and also in Pub­ and so far I have not taken any part in Vinson bill is to be amended. so that it lic, No. 274, of the Seventy-seventh Con­ the feud running between Mr. Lewis and will. gress, why do you repeat the provision in Mr. Roosevelt. I do not care anything Mr. VINSON of Georgia. If the gen­ these bills? about their personal feuds. Mr. Lewis tleman will permit, the gentleman is mis­ - Mr. MO'IT. I do not think we do and, does not work on any production line, and taken so far as any amendment coming of course, the Vinson substitute bill does he does not picket any plant. He is not from me is concerned or from the com­ not, and now may I ask the gentleman responsible for getting out the war pro­ mittee. this question since that point has been duction or the civilian supply production, Mr. CRAWFORD. Then, let me ask cleared up. What is his objection, if .any, and it is just quite immaterial to me what the chairman of the committee a ques­ to the Vinson substitute bill if he thinks the President and Mr. Lewis do in their tion, .although I do not ask him to di- it will solve the problem we are tying to personal fight. But it is very material to . vulge too much information he intends solve, or if not, why not? me about what the "pay-rollees" in the to give in his speech later. But when Mr. CRAWFORD. I do not think the United States do. As far as my district you get through your bill, so far as you Vinson substitute bill as it is presented iS concerned, I am not worrying about are concerned, it will not have a provi­ to us in. these italics will at all do' what what they are going to do. I have spent · sion for taking over plants? the country is expecting us to do. I think enough time in the factories with them Mr. VINSON of Georgia. I think the what the country expects us to do is pri­ before coming down here, in that very President has that authority now because marily set forth in the Smith bill. Does district, tc know what they arf! going to he . has already taken over two plants, that answer the gentleman's question? do. They are going to work like "Old and I see no reason for incorporating Mr. MOTT. That answers my ques­ Harry" to get out production. That is such a provision in any other bill.' tion or that part of my question which what they are now doing. That is ex­ Mr. CRAWFORD. That is the reason was whether the gentleman thought the actly what they are going to do. I referred to those two laws I mentioned Vinson bill was sufficient. It does not I am not in favor of any legislation a few moments ago. answer that part of the question which wbich will interfere with that work. I Mr. BATES of Massachusetts. And I ·I asked, if the gentleman did not think . think the Ramspeck bill in its present understand the gentleman from Georgia it would bring about a solution of this . form will create all kinds of trouble and to say that he does not intend to offer problem which is the prevention of bring about no good. such an amendment. strikes in defense industries. 9338 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 2 Mr. CRAWFORD. Let me follow that more. I do not know the section, but I of men, either beyond the seas or at for just a moment. assume that that is right. home. Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ Mr. CRAWFCRD. Let us tie it up. Someone recently said that if we can­ man, will the gentleman yield? Examine the bill. not conquer John Lewis we would better Mr. CRAWFORD. Yes. Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Yes; that is not attack Hitler. I say to you that if Mr. VINSON of Georgia. In view of the section. any man or any group of men can stand the gentleman's statement that the bill Mr. CRAWFORD. I refer to page 17 before the men and women of this Nation does not do what -the country wants, but of the Smith bill, section 20. and assert, as Philip Murray asserted, that the Smith bill does, of course the Mr. VINSON of Georgia. And if the that no national emergency can be per­ gentleman is going to follow the wishes committee will do that, then we will have mitted to interfere with the ·unionization of the country. · met the demand of the American people drive, and get away with it, America is Mr. CRAWFORD. I am not smart and have written a bill that has some no longer free and our people have been enough in a parliamentary way 'to be teeth in it, which the country is de­ betrayed. able to answer that question at this time. .manding that we do. I stand here today, Mr. Chairman, to Mr. VINSON of Georgia. I assume Mr. CRAWFoRD. I think the gentle­ plead for a government by law· instead the gentleman is going to follow the man has stated the case in a few words .(>f a government by men. I stand here · vJewpoint of the country. which I have been trying· to state in 30 today to demand that. this Congress per- - Mr. CRAWFORD . . I do not know ·minutes. :forni its constitutional duty and function what I will do, but if there is a roll call ·of upholding law and justice,.equality of The CHAIRMAN. The time of the ·opportunity, and the Bill of Rights. on this, the gentleman will certainly gentleman from Michigan has again know what I will do. If I knew what I ·expired. I never believed the hour would come was going to be able to vote on, I would when it would be necessary to stand up Mr. MOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield the in this body to plead for action that answer the question. gentleman 1 minute more. Mr. VINSON of Georgia. I thought should have been. taken long ago. I Mr: CRAWFORD. If we are going never believed I should see the time when the gentleman was, because I assumed before the country with a bill approved from his remarks that he is adopting the organized labor leaders would have the by this House, let us g·o out of here with brazen insolence to stand up and tell bill which he says· has teeth in it, na.mely, a bill that we are not ashamed to men­ the ·Smith bill. · · · 130,000,000 free men; women, and tion. and stand up for when we get back children: Mr. CRAWFORD. I think that is the _home, instead of compromising and bill that the country wants. · You cannot have a national defense, you shadow boxing as we did on the price­ cannot have security, you cannot have pros­ Mr. VINSON of Georgia. So do I think .contrcl bill last week. The country, it is what the country wants, with one perity, you cannot have liberty, except on our labor, and all others are entitled to know ·terms. . amendment to the bill, and that is taking our exact position on this question. If . out the right to take ·plants over. it defeats us in November 1942, wdl and Oh, would to ·' God that' we could hark ·Mr. CRAWFORD. I wish the gentle- good, because we .should be able to get • ·.back .to the courage of G:r:over Cleveland. man would -repeat that. . along after working around in this Would to God that we had some of that . Mr. VINSON ·of Georgia. I thhik the House for many years. Perhaps. a lot .courageous statesmanship . today that country wants the enactment of the of us have been here too long. I think could and did rise above all political Smith bill with teeth in it, eliminating my own district has kept me here about considerations-the courage that immor­ the section with reference to plants being 8 years. It may desire a change. But talized Andrew Jackson__..:.the courage taken over by the Government, when the let us put a bill out that means some­ that was not afraid to stand up and plants have not forced the issue, and sec­ thing, or else vote down every mislead­ declare the right, no matter what group tion 9 of the Selective Service Act is the ing bill that is put up here. Let us come of men had determined to set themselves one permitting the taking over of the · Clean, be plain in our approach, and do above the security of the Nation and plants when the plant refuses to manu­ the necessary. · When we get so smart above' the safety o'f the people. . facture, but in this bill of the gentleman politically our people do not know where Mr. Chairman, historians of the future from Georgia [Mr. RAMSPECK] the Gov­ we stand'.on great questions it is time for . will find it difficult to phrase sentences ernment may 'go out and grab a plant, ' the people to do the necessary. · ·that will describe the inexpressibly in­ simply because labor has forced them to The CHAIRMAN. The time of the . solent and suJ:jversive attitude exhibited bring on a strike. In that way you will gentleman from Michigan has again by these so-called labor leaders· today. put industry in this country under gov­ expired. Let me say that my remarks are not ernment control which is the first step to directed against the rarik and file of the socialism and nazi-ism. Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ 'working peopie of Ame:fica because I Mr. CRAWFORD. I think now: that. I . man, I yield 20 minutes to the gentleman }?elieve they are .lust as ready -and' will- ' can say I am in full accord with what from Georgia [Mr. Cox]. ing to fight for. our national de.fense and· the gentleman from Georgia said. - May Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, Jefferson Ol.lr national security as _any other group I ask this question? · In the amendments once said: of our citizens. the gentleman proposes to offer to his Let this be the ' distinctive mark of an But let me remind. you, my. colleagues bill, will you bring it into ·agreement with American that, in cases of commotion, he in this body, that these labor leaders who the Smith bill? · enlists himself under. no man's banner, in­ profess to speak for organized labor speak quires for no man's n:ame, but repairs to the Mr. VINSON of Georgia. I am hoping, standard of the laws. Do this and you need , for less .than one-fifth of the wage earners speaking for myself, that this House will ' never fear anarchy or tyranny. Your Gov­ of America. There are more than 50~- have an opportunity of voting, and they ernment will be perpetual. 000,000 wage earners in this country. Ap­ will have, on the clear-cut substitute of proximately 10,000,000 of them belong to the gentleman from Virginia tMr. SMITH], Mr. Chairman, I plead for America, labor unions. And not 50 percent, I am and I am hoping the House will adopt for today America is confronted by the reliably informed, of the members of that bill, eliminat:ng the section that I chaos of events. Anarchy stalks abroad labor organizations, today, are members . have just referred to. If we do that, then in the land, fear rides the wind, and free who enrolled voluntarily. we will have written a better bill than the America is being trampled in the dust. Mr. Chairman, the security of this Naval Affairs bill substitute, or the bill The "goons" are here. The spirit of Nation, the very safety of our people, is that comes from the Labor Committee, Harry Bridges hovers over the portals of being opposed and hamstrung by a hand­ which is a copy of the substitute of the this Chamber while we consider whether ful of rapacious, audacious racketeers, Naval Affairs Committee. or not the rights of freemen under the lustful for power and greedy for profit. Mr. CRAWFORD. In other words, the Constitution shall be wiped out by a small These racketeers want all the power, elimination to which the gentleman re­ minority of racketeering labor gangsters, they want to dominate industry, and yet fers is section 20, page 17, of H. R. 6149. or whether we shall move to stand by they deny that they should have an atom The CHAIRMAN. The time of the the Constitution, by free government, by of responsibility. Many, if not most, of gentleman from Michigan has expired. the government of Washington, Jeffer­ these labor leaders who now have their Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ son, Cleveland, and Wilson-that govern­ goon squads under the lash of Harry man, I yield the gentleman 1 minute ment which fears no man or any group Bridges on this Hill to try to intimidate, 19-!1 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUS~ ·9339 to frighten Membel's of Congress into that organized labor should have its right impede the national defense," then God evading their solemn duty, have not been to place its minority interests above the knows there is nothing to fight Hitler for, elected even by the rank and file ·of their welfare and safety of the whole Nation. because then freedom is gone. unions. No man or woman can argue with· any Colleagues, we must defeat, we must Many of the strikes which have im­ shadow of logic that organized labor and stop, the depredations of these labor peded the national-defense production organized labor leaders should have the racketeers against the national defense. have been fraudulent strikes because the power they are exercising today without If we do not qo it, and do it now, we union vote which precipitated them was a shadow of responsibility, either to the ought to be ashamed tu go back home and a vote secured by terrorism and by · the Government, the people, or to their own look our constituents in the face. rank dishonesty of stuffing the ballot members. I say to you, Mr. Chairman, that on.ly box. No man or woman can argue with. a the most unspeakable cowardice, only the Why, Mr. Chairman, we have come to shadow of logic that these rar.keteering most inexpressible, craven spirit can pre­ the point, incredible as it seems, in this labor leaders should be permitted to levy vent this Congress from taking the action country, in this hour of our national tribute, any tribute they please-as they that national safety demands •. that free emergency, ou:r national peril, when in­ do now-on the free wage earners of government requires, that common, ordi­ terjurisdictional and even intrajurisdic­ America and not even make any account­ nary decency necessitates. tional strikes have come to hold up ing of the multiplied millions that they Either let us meet this fundamental national-defense production. In these extort from the pay -envelopes of the men issue fairly and courageously, or let us strikes, working conditions, wages, and and women of this country. No man or move the statl)es and tak~ down the por­ hours, are not even a consideration. They woman can ~rgue with the slightest traits of ~?ashington, Jefferson, Jackson, are strikes which represent only the shadow of logic that we can any longer Lincoln, ClevelanCI , and Wilson, and put jealousies and the feudings between these with safety lPave this question of strikes, il their place the Lewises and the Mur­ racketeering labor leaders themselves. or no strikes, to the sense of fairness and rays and Bridges and Hillmans. God These labor leaders have made a play­ the desires so belatedly expressed by forfend the day. thing of the national security. They these labor leaders themselves. Why do My colleagues, on the Kansas shield have inade a pawn, in their underhanded they now come forward after the loss of above this Chamber is written, .''To the and nefarioUs plottings and striking for millions upon millions of man-days of stars through difficulties." Today let me · power and more power, they have made labor· in the national defense, and plead say to you, not for self but for country, a pawn, I say, of the safety of American that they are ready now to gather around let us take our stand, and take it now. men, women, and children. the council table with the representatives £Here the gavel fell. 1 Mr. MOTT. Mr. Chairman, I yield 10 In God's name, have 130,000,000 coura­ of the Government to avoid strikes? geous American people reached a point Why do they do this? It is because, like minutes to the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. LANDISJ. where a few self-seeking, racketeering Belshazzar of old, they see the hand­ writing on the wall. They see that Mr. LANDIS. Mr. Chairman, I rise as labor leaders can with impunity defy the a member of the House Labor Committee .. President of the United States, the Con­ shadow written there by the moving fin­ ger of an outraged Fnd betrayed people, and as one that respects the rank and gress of the United States, and the courts, file of labor in this country and our great and imperil the safety of this Nation? and they read on those walls-the shadow of events-these words: "Thou art labor leaders who have gone along in Can that be possible, Mr. Chairman? Can our defense program. I want to preserve there be anybody in this Chamber who weighed in the balance, and found wanting." the rights of labor and also increase our will hesitate a minute to vote for the defense production. Smith bill, which not only · will put the Mr. Chairman, there is not a Member on this :floor who can rise in his place at Ther-e have been some misstatements · proper responsibility upon labor leaders made in the past with reference to the and labor unions, }:)ut which will put a this moment and deny with truth that these labor leaders have not had every cooling-off period and balloting and curb on the insatiable lust for power and mediation. We have had all kinds of the immeasurable greed for money which conceivable opr~rtunity that men pos­ sibly could want to gather around the mediation. We have had a cooling-off these racketeering labor leaders· have dis­ period. We also have 98 percent ballot- played? Are free wage earners in Amer­ council table with the officials of the Gov­ ernment long since and avoid these ing on strikes today. . ica to be enslaved to a labor monopoly? I am interested in the main objective, Are the free wage earners of America to strikes, to . have amicably settled these disputes which have brought these losses in getting the maximum defense effort be compelled by their Government to pay with the least numb-er of strikes. In whatever tribute may be leVied against of multiplied millions of ·man-days to the national defense. · order to do that, legislation will not ac­ them by these greedy racketeers as the complish it alone, but we must direct our price of their right in free America to No man or woman on this :floor can legislation at the cause. · make a living, to work, to feed their wives with truth deny that time and again What are the causes of strikes? First, and children? labor leaders have said bluntly and in­ wages and better working conditions Mr. Chairman, there is not the slight­ solently that the hour of the Nation's which is a legitimate cause. ' est point in arguing the merits or demer­ , peril is the time for them to get theirs­ Second, · jurisdictional strikes. We its of any of these bills. We are con­ and they have proceeded with a ven­ have had very few jurisdictional strikes fronted with a ~undamental issue ·here. geance to get it. in 1940 and in the first 6 months of 1941. That issue is whether or not a few greedy, Therefore, I want to impress upon you, Six percent of the strikes in 1940 were brutal, power-lustful racketeers shall my colleagues, that this is a fundamental· jurisdictional strikes, and in the first 6 defy the Government of the United States issue of freedom you are dealing with months of 1941 only 2 percent of the and imperil the safety of the Nation. I here today, the fundamental issue not strikes were jurisdictional. say to you that if there is any group, big only of the freedom of the wage earners Then we come.down to what I call the or little, in the United States; any mi­ of this country to earn a living without real cause of strikes; that is, by un­ nority, if you please, that is bigger than let or hindrance from some goon leader, American labor leaders in America. Our the United States itself, that is more but the freedom c. the whole American legislation should be directed toward powerful than the Government, 'that can people-including the men and women these "red" labor leaders. In case the intimidate the Chief Executive, or this and children of the ranks of labor-to Smith substitute fails, I would like to Congress, then by the living God, free prepare their national defense and se­ offer another substitute that would take America is gone, the Constitution is a curity without interference. care of these "red" labor leaders. My dead letter, the Bill of Rights is a mock­ I warn here and now that if the Con­ substitute is divided in three sections. In ery, and we have left only the decaying gress succumbs to the threats of men the first section, which will take care ·of carcass of that great dream of the signers who in this hour are on this Hill trying the "red" labor leade.rs in America it of the Declaration of Independence and to browbeat and intimidate Members of provides: ' the framers of the constitution-free Congress, that if we do not meet this In the case of any individua! who has the government. · fundamental issue face to face, if we do status under the National Labor Relations No fair-minded man or woman can ar­ not say to these labor racketeers. and Act of a representative of employees, if the gue for a minute with any dP-~ree of logic these goon squads, "You no longer shall Attorne_y General finds, after due notice to 9340 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 2 such individual and affording him an op­ Mr. VORYS of Ohio. We have to think Mr. RANDOLPH. I desire to com­ portunity for a hearing, that he is a sub­ of all the possibilities here. Suppose the mend the gentleman for his study of versive individual, and by order so declares, the subject matter which he will propose then for all purposes of such act such in­ Smith substitute would be adopted, would dividual shall thereafter cease to have and it be your idea to offer your bill as an in amendments to the pending legisla­ cease to be entitled to such status with re­ amendment to that, if that could be tion. I would like to have the opinion spect to any defense contractor or any labor done? of my friend as to Harry Bridges, who organization in which employees of a defense Mr. LANDIS. If it is possible. though not a citizen of the United States, contractor participate. Mr. VORYS of Ohio. While the Smith who although applying for citizenship It also places the burden upon the bill is pending would the gentleman be three times, has as many times with­ union. The unions elect the labor disposed to offer it as an amendment to drawn his application, yet is the leader . leaders. If the unions have a labor ofli­ the Smith bill? directly and indirectly of thousands and cer who is a Communist or a Nazi or one Mr. HALLECK. Mr. Chairman, will thousands of organized laborers in this who wants to destroy our form of gov­ the gentleman yield? country. _ ernment in America, that labor union Mr. LANDIS. I yield to my colleague Mr. LANDIS. Many labor leaders I · shall not be given the rights of the Wag­ from Indiana. have t8tlked to do not like Harry Bridges ner Act as long as they have an o:flicer Mr. HALLECK. There are, of course, any mo!e than I do and would like to get who is un-American. Whenever tP,e a couple of provisions the gentleman con­ rid of him, but it is apparently impos­ _union gets .rid of that kind of o:flicer, templates offering that are touched upon sible to . get rid of him · under today's then that labor union comes back within in some measure at least in the so-called conditions. the act. Smith bill. ~ · [Here· the gavel fell.] Section 2 is with regard to the destruc­ Mr. VORYS of Ohio. The first section Mr. MOT';I'. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 tion of property and willful violence and of the gentleman's bill is not in the Smith additional minutes to the gentleman reads: bill at all, the section dealing with sub­ from Indiana. versive or "red" labor leaders. Mr. LANDIS. If _a law were passed to and for the purposes of the provisions of Mr. LANDIS. That is right; but plant take care of "reds" like Harry Bridges, section 10 (c) re~ating to reinstatement by any employer who is a defense contractor, seizure is in the Smith bill, and I am, of this country would be better off. I would does not include any employee who a pre­ course, against the plant-seizure provi-. now like to ma.ke a statement on the dif­ . ponderance of the testimony taken shows has sian. ference in.strikes. We have read much willfully engaged in violence or unlawful Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. Chairman; will newspaper comment with reference to destruction or seizure of property in connec­ the gentleman yield? strikes, but I -call your attention to the tion with any current labor dispute 0~ un­ Mr. LANDIS. I yield. fact that in 1917 we had over 4,400 fair labor practice involving such employer, or in connection with · any organizational Mr. CRAWFORD. I assume a strong strikes .with but· one labor .organization in activities of a labor organization among em­ effort wil be made to -strike that out of the country. In 1940 we have had only ployees of such employer. the bill. Then if that goes out of the a little over 2,500 strikes with two great ·biU-- labor organizations. . · · That means that labor leaders and the ·Mr. LANDIS. ·It would be a question The rank and file and the great labor rank and file of labor do not believe in of parliamentary procedure to amend leaders in· America, the American labOr destroying property. If they destroy the Smith bill if that section is stricken leaders, have cooper~ted with the de­ property, then they are destroy!ng their from the bill. . fense program, and I do not want tp see own jobs. them suffer. I want to take it out on Then the third section, which has to do Mr. HALLECK. Does· the gentleman · mean an amendment to the Smith bill the un-American ·labor leaders. with the registration of labor unio.ns, I Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Chairman, will quote section 5 of the bill: or to the Ramspeck bill? Mr. LANDIS: No; the Smith bill. As the gentleman yield? Every labor organization in which em­ I understand the procedure, we would · Mr. LANDIS. I yield. ployees of any defense contractor participate ·Mr. HOFFMAN. If I understand the shall, within 30 days after the date of the not have a right to amend the Smith bill. enactment of this act, and thereafter on We would have to wait and amend the gentleman's record correctly, and I have January 1 and July 1 of ~ach year, register Ramspeck bill because parliamentary served with him on the labor committee, with the Secretary of Labor by filing, on proc~dure would not permit an amend- the gentleman has always represented such form and in such manner as the St!cre­ ment to the Smith bill. · union labor, and what he is .trying to do tary may by rules and regulations prescribe, Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. Chairman, will how is to get legislation _that will pro­ a statement, signed under oath by the presi­ the gentleman yield for another ques­ tect the unions from these subversive dent and the treasurer of such labor organi­ groups. zation, containing the following information, tion? Mr. LANDIS. I yield. Mr. LANDIS. That is exactly right. etc. Mr. HO"FFMAN. I am with the gentle­ Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. Chairman, will Mr. CRAWFORD. If the plant­ man in his effort. the gentleman yield? . seizure portion of the Smith bill were stricken out would the gentleman be more Mr. WILLIAM T. PHEIFFER. Mr. Mr. LANDIS. I yield to my colleague Chairman, will the gentleman yield~ from Michigan. friendly toward that bill? Mr. LANDIS. I yield. . Mr. CRAWFORD. Under what condi­ Mr. LANDIS. I certainly would. Mr. WILLIAM T. PHEIFFER. Could tions will you be able to offer those three Mr. CRAWFORD. That is the gen­ not the situation be iikened to the rotten sections? tleman's principal objection to the Smith apple in the barrel? One rotten apple Mr. LANDIS. This will be introduced bill? will spoil the entire barrel. . as a substitute if the Smith bill fails. If Mr. LANDIS. That is one of the main Mr. LANDIS. - 'Exactly. Let us take this substitute then would fail, I would objections. Another objection is freez­ the rotten apples out. want to offer the first section as an ing the .closed shop. [Here the gavel fell.] amendment to the Ramspeck bill. Mr. CRAWFORD. I think the gen­ Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ Mr. CRAWFORD. Let me get this tleman has suggested some very fine man, I yield ·20 minutes to the gentleman clear. If the Smith substitute does not amendments and I hope we shall have from Virginia [Mr. DREWRY]. . fail, that is, if it is approved, you cannot an opportunity to vote on them. Mr. DREWRY. Mr. Chairman, I have offer these amendments, can you? Mr. LANDIS. One of the main rea­ approached this subject coolly and delib­ Mr. LANDIS. No; I cannot. sons for the collapse of France was .the erately, and, I ·hope, sanely, without any · Mr. CRAWFORD. Would you mind Communist leaders and Nazi leaders in excitement and without being influenced telling us what your attitude is toward the labor movement in France. Part by any person or organization in the the Smith bill? . was due to drastic legislation, but most world. I hope I shall not be interrupted Mr. LANDIS. I am against the Smith of the trouble in France was caused by for I wish to make a connected state­ bill. "red" leaders. ment. Mr. VORYS of Ohio. Mr. Chairman, Mr. RANDOLPH . . Mr. Chairman, will The people orthe country at last seem will the gentleman yield? the gentleman yield? to be a wakening to the seriousness of the Mr. LANDIS. I yield to the gentleman Mr. LANDIS. I yield to my friend on emergency confronting them, arising out from Ohio. the Labor Committee. · · · of 'troubled world conditions. They are 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9341 beginning to realize the possibility of evil country; but the collective action of or­ If the Members of this body do not things befalling them. Their security ganized bodies might prevent the speedy pass legislation sufficiently strong to stop may be endangered-their way of life construction of ships or of any other work strikes, then the various constituencies of may be destroyed. A far-seeing few have that might be necessary to the defense the Representatives will take matters in seen it for some time; now a majority of of the country. their hands. Their action will not be the ·people are determined to prepare for A large majority, I believe, of the based upon party affiliation; it will be any eventuality. In this preparation the , people of the country think that the based solely on one thought-their own people 'have fully ' decided that nothing · unions themselves, voluntarily-yes, and self-preservation and the preservation of shall interfere with· the activities for na- patriotically-should pledge themselves their country. No man, I care not who tional defense. The security_of the coun- not to strike during this great national he may be, from the most powerful, po­ try and their own safety is superior, in emergency when engaged in any work litically or otherwise, to the humblest their minds, to everything else. Self- necessary to the defense of the country citizen, can in this dangerous crisis fail preservation is the dominant thought of and the safety, security, and welfare of to take every action within his power to human existence. Therefore, the people the people. Such a step would end the prevent the greatest catastrophe with conclude, everything else must give way. matter-there would be no need for leg­ which the Nation has ever been The people will not submit to any inter- islation. All specific grievances could be threatened. If he does fail, then the day ference, any obstruction, from any source, handled with such machinery as we now of reckoning for that man is at hand. to the speedy necessity of defending have. As for me, I am a Democrat; but, first themselves and their country from dan- However, when we find that one man, of all, I am an American. I feel con­ ger. Woe be to the man, or ·men, or arrogant in his power and selfish in his fident that this allegiance is shared by group, or organization that they may leadership, can injure, perhaps even de­ all of us, regardless of party loyalty. I hold responsible for delay or weakness in stroy, 130,000,000 of the people of the am not thinking solely of combinations their defense.' They will overthrow their country by giving an order to many thou­ of capital, nor of labor unions, nor any administration, their legislative bodies, sands of men to stop work; then some­ other organization, but I wish to see ac­ their business, or social organizations, or thing must be done to protect not only tion taken that will enable our defense any organization of whatever kind that the country but the unions themselves contracts to be carried out, that will stands in their way, and when the people from the dictatorship of such a man. enable us to furnish the ships and the are fully aroused to their· danger, they This legislation proposes a procedure to airplanes, the tanks and the ordnance, will eliminate those held responsible by prevent such power being lodged in the and the ammunition to the American them for the failure to protect their se- hands of any man. manpower to protect this country and its curity. All individual selfishness must be When you find that the present Media- people from great disaster. To that end sacrificed to the common good. tiOI:l Board, appointed by the President, the people of the country are willing to The people are demanding unity of has little power to act, and before it acts make great sacrifice. For the gain of a effort on the part of the Executive and must have any strike investigation certl­ few cents more per hour, or for any other the Congress, and they are demanding fied to it by the Secretary· of Labor, then reason, no one should be allowed to hold that those engaged in defense, whether we realize that there must be mediation up our defense. employer .or employees, whether business directed by Congress instead of by the This is no time for capitulation nor for organizations, or labor unions shall cease Executive, and that the Mediation Board bargaining. Directing conciliation and their bickering. Therefore, every citi- shall have the power, given by an act of mediation only on such a subject at such zen should bend every energy, should Congress, to provide for notice to be given a time as this is worse than foolish. If make every sacrifice to so prepare to de- before a strike is declared and to use every American is-not willing unselfishly fend ourselves and our country, even to such efforts as may _tend to prevent a to do his part in an all-out effort for the giving up of life itself, if need be, strike. Such an important matter should the national defense, then legislation that our country should not perisl:l from be directed by congressional action and must be passed to make such men do the face of the earth. Such defense re- not by Executive order. their duty. - quires unity of purpose, and unity of When you find that the intent of the It is a surprise to me that the leaders· effort, even to the extent of yielding National Labor Relations Act is flouted of the unions ·are asking Members of cherished convictions, if such yielding be by the present procedure of certain or­ Congress to oppose any legislation of necessary for the welfare of all. The ganizations with reference to strikes, this kind, and they say it is an attack on people are demanding that the leaders of then there must be legislation which deft­ labor unions. It is most certainly not industry shall have the work done that is an attack on labor unions, but it might necessary to the national defense without nitely makes such strikes unlawful. be considered an attack against the evils unreasonable cost. Most of all, the peo- Certainly the full membership of the of labor unions. Those evils are known ple are demanding that the workers do organization should pass on the question throughout· the length and breadth of not impede, d~ay, or hinder the work of of a strike rather than act under the the land, and do J+Ot attach to all labor national defense by work stoppages. orders of a leader who may not, and unions, or to all members of labor unions, The stoppages are largely due to strikes sometimes does not, express the majority but only to a few. Therefore it is harder calletl by leaders of labor organizations view of the membership. for the people to understand why the or unions, where large forces of workers When you find that mass picketing is unions should resent an attempt to cor­ at one time are ordered to stop work, re- used for the purpose of intimidating and rect the evils and abuses · within their gardless of the danger to the country obstructing those who wish to work, then own system~ This defiant attitude, in· from lack of necessary construction. I do legislatjon must be perfected that will se­ stead of cooperation, of course, will cause not refer in any sense to the right of cure to every man the right to work, if legislation that ·will probably go further individuals, acting individually, to work he so wishes, without· fear of violence than it would have gone if there had or not to work. That is beside the ques- from those who do not work and do not been an attempt on the part of the unions tion. What we are now concerned with wish to work. If, as the unions contend, to correct the abuses which existed. Per­ is the best method of preventing danger every man· has a right to work, to make a sonally, I am not here to represent the to the -country by the sudden stoppage living for himself and family, which is a views of labor alone, or of capital alone, of work by large organized forces of work- natural law as well as the law of men, but I am here to represent the rights of ers employed in defense contracts, acting then the unions are inconsistent in say­ the laboring man, and the capitalist, and under the orders of the leaders of said ing that a man has no right to work for of all others, to be secure in the rights organization or union. There is a wide a living unless he holds membership in a which have been given them under our difference between the constitutional labor union. form of government. ·right of an individual to work or not to The bills before the House all have Of course, we are preparing for war. work and the organized action of large some legislation intended to correct the There can be no dispute about that. We masses of workers who, by reason of ex- present situation. Of said bills, it seems have spent billions of dollars and are go .. ercising such a claimed right, would ·fail to me ~hat the bill known as the Smith ing to spend more; increased taxes have to protect the country and its people. bill is more direct in its approach and been levied to meet the unusual expense: Tile action of one man, or a few men, tends to correct the abuses aforemen­ Army camps have been established acting individually, would not damage the tioned more than the others. throughout the country; a million and a 934-2· ·coNGR-ESSIONAL RECORD-· HOl:JS.E DECEMBER ··2· half of our young men have been put into people of the country are demanding that should be attacked by an enemy or ene­ training; and there has been no dispute something be done to stop these strtkes, mies and defeated, both employers and about the pay they are receiving, which and in a representative democracy, such employees would lose their businesses and is less for a month than some laborers as this Government is, the representa­ their jobs and t~eir liberty. are receiving by the week or even for the tives of the people wm respOnd to their From a report recently · received the day. Of course, everyone knows of our command. following has been taken: preparation for war, and everyone knows The American people have boasted of R~cently the Department of Labor released that preparedness is as necessary as their Government, and their Congress figures covering the period from July 1, 1940, participation in actual conflict; yet we has passed enough laws, it would seem, to October 1, 1941, 15 months of the rearma­ find. certain men, some of them avowed certainly to protect the people from dan­ ment program. These figures in themselves enemies of our country, and others, ger from any source. Yet, the public is show the serious effect of strikes and work blindly following these subversive lead­ informed that there is no law on the stoppages in delaying, hindering, and ob­ ers, refusing to prepare unless they are statute books for our self-preservation structing ·the progress of · national defense . . paid unusual and increased wages. The from annihilation, because a few men During the 15-month period covered by the are refusing to do their part in our coun­ survey 24,284,981 man-days of defense effort first are certainly not patriots, and the were lost because .of strikes involving 1,960,- others who are taking advantage of the try's behalf and will not permit. anyone 331 workers. During the 'single month of necessities of their country are making else to do so. Maybe that was what the · June 1941 there was a loss of 1,448,234 man­ their patriotism a matter of dollars and · president of the A. F. of L. was referring days. During the month of June a total of cents. Patriots do not force their coun­ to when he said labor would rebel if 52,218 ma·n-days were lost ·because of strikes try to pay them to do their duty in de­ Congress passed legislation. engaged in by 12,039 aircraft workers; 57,146 fending their country. The term "mer­ This is a curious situation. The safety man-days were. lost in shipbuild~ng strikes. cenaries" is applied to those who fight of 130,000,000 people is endangered by :, The Navy Department reports that strikes small fractional part of the population. occurred in 411 plants having naval defense for pay; · they are not and never have contracts, the number of man-days lost being been credited with patriotism. . What kind of men are these? Are they approximately 2,586,000, or 20,688,000 man­ . Nor does such action comply with the patriots? To ask the question .shows the hours. rules of common sense. If the country absurdity of it. By no logical processes should be defeated because of the lack of of the human mind, by the wildest stretch Those days of labor lost were estimated preparedness, these blind strikers for spe­ of the imaginatimi, a man who does, or to be the equivalent of the production of cial advantage will not only get less pay refuses to do, things which destroy his a large amount of tanks, machine 'guns, but will be forced to work as slaves for no country could be c~lled a patriot. A armor plate, aircraft, ·ammunition, and pay at the behest· of a conquering dicta­ .patriot is. one who loves his country and all other basic equipment for our military tor. Selfishness alone; with no consider­ zealously guards its welfare. forces. Still, in the face of that state­ ation of patriotic duty, should make such Then, if they are not led by patriotic ment a month ago, strikes have increased, persons realize that they are jeopardizing devotion to their country, what inspires not decreased, while the flower of our their security and their lives for a few them? surely they would not plead ig­ young manhood is waiting in training additional cents per hour, which will be norance of the result of their actions. camps for ail of this necessary ·_equipment taken from them if their country fails to But if their actions are not patriotic, with which to defend their country and Win the war which impends. they must be acting either ignorantly or their lives. Some may reply that demands are be­ deliberately. If by any chance they This state of affairs cannot continue. ing made for what they call their rights. should be declared ignorant, which I do Fresh in our minds is the picture of what Yet nearly every strike that I have heard not believe, for the· American working­ happened in France, where the French .about dep1ands increased pay for the man is the best paid and most intelligent lost their liberty to Germany because workers, and every strike has been workman ·on earth, then legislation is they idled and argued while the Germans quickly settled when the increased pay necessary to show them the error of their worked. way. If they do not know what· will be has been granted. It would appear that the people have It may be that some workers are not in the result of their J.Cts, then let them sympathy with these strikes, but if their listen to their leaders and follow their as great, if not a greater, right to protec­ leaders are responsible . they have the advice. By their vote they elected the tion for themselves from their Govern­ power to refuse to follow such leaders. President and the Vice President of the ment and the workers as the unions .If they are foifowing enemies of their United States-those leaders have been would have to be protected in their rights . advising. against. strikes for a . year . or These figures show a serious situation; .country, all. that the patriotic member­ At this point it also might be well to call ship of labor has to do is to put out of . more and portraying the dang~rs to .the their organizations every man who is en­ country of work stoppages . .If they. will attention to a report made by the United Mine Workers' Union; by John Lewis, its .not take. the a.dvice of .leaders whom, _t~y gaged in activities hurtful to the general president, and Thomas-Kennedy, its sec­ welfare. - .. themselves electecl to lead~rsnip, then As the above has not been done-and . they ar.e ·tVillful and deliberate in thefr ·retary-treasUrer, , hi which· the treasury ·there is no inidcation' that it will be_:_ acts. · A fair conclusion is _that so~e of balance of that organization on the 31st :then legislation is being proposed to cor­ them are willful and delib.eratQ. Imme­ of March 1941 had reached the sum of :rect this dangerous situation: · The pres­ diately the question arises, do not they $4,014,075.80, and yet the leader of this ·ent bill is one instance of it; This bill is know. the first destruction will fall upon _organization is still -making_per capita ·a mild step toward a peaceable settle­ themselves-what is· the reason for their , levies- against members of the organiza;. ment of· labor disputes. It is mil'd be- · behavior?. Some of them are Commu­ tion. It is certainly still more evident 'cause Congress realizes that the majoFity nists, spies, saboteurs, enemies of our that · the people nee

when they cannot secure the appropriate STRIKES IN NATIONAL-DEFENSE CONTRACTS CRUCIFIXION remedy by negotiation, they are going to Mr. WHI'ITINGTON. Mr. Chairman, The gentleman from Illinois [Mr. strike and no power on earth will stop we have under consideration the so-called McKEOUGH] compared labor to. the Sav­ them. To prevent them from striking Vinson bill to diminish and prevent iour of mankind. I am for labor; my would be a Hitler move. That is what strikes in national-defense contracts. sympathies are with the workingman, but brought Hitler to power, his scheme to Under the rule the substitute Vinson bill the analogy was unfortunate. It was pe­ regiment people. It is a dictator system: may be offered for the original bill. I culiarly unfortunate, as the gentleman "Thou shalt not, thou shalt not, thou prefer the substitute. It puts teeth in from Illinois was followed by the gentle­ shalt not." existing laws and strengthens the origi­ man from Texas [Mr. DIES], who fur­ No; we do not have to emulate Hitler, nal bill. The Smith bill, which is prefer­ nished the names of thieves, robbers, Mussolini, or Stalin. We do not have able to either the original or the substi­ thugs, and felons who are engaged in la­ to follow their pattern. Under our free tute Vinson bill, may and will be offered bor racketeering. The analogy or paral­ enterprise system, capital and labor have as a substitute for the Vinson bill. The lel is unfortunate for his argument. The always got along. I subscribe to the Smith bill is more comprehensive. As people committed a great crime in cruci­ sentiments expressed by the gentleman H. R. 6149 it includes the Ramspeck bill. fying the Saviour. There were two thieves from Massachusetts [Mr. HEALEY], who With the Ramspeck provisions it .is more or robbers available. Congress and the­ I hope will soon grace with dignity a effective with the power tci take over the country must not repeat the crime of Federal district court in his home State, plant without fault on the part of the 2,000 years ago. We have the opportunity whose nomination has gone to the Sen­ employer eliminated, than either the to crucify the thieves or robbers, the ate and whom I congratulate publicly Vinson or the Ramspeck bills. The felons, and the racketeers who put their now as a friend of labor, one of the best Ramspeck bill is the bill reported by the r :nbition for place and power above the that ever sat in the Congress. I sub­ Committee on Labor, and it may be of­ service of their country. Neither the scribe to the sentiment he expressed fered as a substitute fo:· the Vinson bill. country nor Congress has any fault to when he said the answer is in a con­ Many Members of Congress have ad­ :ijnd with legitima:e labor or with the ference of capital and labor and Govern­ vocated restrictive labor legislation, espe­ rights of labor to bargain or to strike, but ment. The answer is the resolution of­ cially since the President proclaimed a the Congress and the country are opposed fered by the gentleman from Pennsyl­ national emergency on May 28, 1940. to strikes that are indefensible and that vania [Mr. KELLEY],-calling for a confer­ Other Members of Congress have opposed are hindering and delaying national ence, which resolution reads as follows: any further legish.. tion. The time has defense. Resolved, That the House hereby recom­ now arrived when a ·choice must be made. Again, the gentleman from Illinois mends to the President of the United States I am one of those who have urged restric­ finds fault with the gentleman from Vir­ that he convene as soon as possible a con­ tive legislation from the beginning. I ginia [Mr. SMITH] because the gentleman ference of representatives of industry, labor, and Government, for the purpose of obtain­ will cooperate to secure the most effective from Virginia is alleged to have advocated ing an agreement for the establishment of a legislation to prevent strikes. the closed shop with respect to milk in program of basic policies to _govern Indus­ The gentleman . from Illinois, my good the District of Columbia. What if he tri\1 relations and adequate machinery for friend [Mr. McKEOUGH], opposes any did? This is but a sample of the fallacy the peaceful solution of industrial disputes. legislation at all. The excuse for his of the arguments against the pending legislation. The gentleman from Vir­ This is a resolution all of us should opposition is the fact that employers have demanded their pound of flesh, and ginia [Mr. SMITH] in the bill proposed by support. Philip Murray, able, clean him does not eliminate closed shop. He leader of the C. .I. 0., and William Green by inference he advocates that labor may support this approach to the strike prob­ now be permitted to obtain its pound of leaves the closed shop just where he flesh. He charges that employers have finds it in the present national emer· lem. gency. He leaves it in defense contracts I have not had any complaint from in­ been greedy and selfish. He cites the repeal of the profit provisions of the Vin­ just where he left it in the milk contro­ dustry asking for this legislation. I versy in the District of Columbia. listened to Bill Green's speech before the son-Trammell Act. He overlooks to state investment bankers convention in Florida that one of the chief reasons for the ARBITRATION recommendation by the administration last Sunday night. He got a splendid re­ I oppose the selfish contractor, and I ception when he said he was for this kind for the repeal of the limitation of profits in the act was the materially increased oppose the selftsh labor racketeer. Per­ of a conference. Industry and labor can sonally I would like to see the employer get together. They will get -together, as costs in labor, but I hold no brief for selfish contractors.- I.know it is true that and the employ~e get around the table, evidenced by the settlement by mediation and if unable to agree, as patriotic Amer­ of the so-called railroad difficulties of the quibbling of employers and the delay of employers while they quibbled to get ican citizens in the existing emergency, today, and tomorrow or in a few days I they should voluntarily agree to arbitra­ think the peaceful solution of the captive favorable contracts with the Govern­ ment have delayed national defense. I tion. Compulsory arbitration as de~ coal mines ·strike in which the United cided by the Supreme Court of the United Miners and certain steel industries are oppose war millionaires and swollen war profits in national defense. The remedy States in reviewing the Kansas compul­ involved-will be forthcoming. sory arbitration law is void. · I am going to oppose all three bills.- I is to recapture all profits above a legiti­ do not think it is the proper approach. I mate return by taxation. The gentle­ VOLUNTARY ACTION think you will add to the confusion ·and man is a member of the Ways. and Means : Those who have advocated voluntary chaos if you pass any one of these bills, Committee. Congress expects that com­ action in the solution of 'labor troubles because then I think labor may rebel, as mittee to promote legislation to prevent :have heretofore succeeded in preventing indicated by some of the leaders, and excessive war profits and to recapture Congress from considering restrictive -they have a right to so indicate. If our munition profits from those who have de­ legislation. It is said that the labor defense effort is to go forward for the pro­ ·manded their pound of flesh. situation in the United States is no worse tection of this country, then we must .- Mr. McKEOUGH. Mr. Chairman, will than it is in Great Britain or in Canada. have a unity-of all persons. Labor plays the gentleman yield? The comparison is not· accurate. The the mos.t important part. It sweats. It Mr. WHITTINGTON. I will be glad population of Great Britain is almost en­ toils, it furnishes the boys for cannon fod­ to yield if the gentleman desires after I tirely industrial. It is largely agricul­ .der and .it pays and. pays as no other finish my statement. tural in the United States. It is main­ ·group by way of consumption taxes for . The remedy for labor is not for labor tained that not more than-2 percent of security- of our land. Defeat these to demand its pound of-flesh, the remedy -labor is involved in strikes. Great Brit­ measures and you will hasten national is not for labor to join with ·selfish in­ ain, however, is unable to protect or to de­ unity. dustrialists in delaying national defense, fend herself. Labor must do more in the [Here the gavel fell.] but the remedy for labor is to cooperate United States if the United States is Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ with the Government and to prevent to protect Great Britain and the Western man, I yield 10 minutes to the gentleman strikes in the emergency and to prevent .Hemisphere. · Since the fall of France from MiSsissippi [Mr. WHITTINGTON]. delay in national defense. .strikes have multiplied, labor leaders 9356 . CONGRESSIONAL_RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 2 have become more bold. Unconscion­ maintain that they are operating under in the emergency should be maintained, able fees to permit citizens to work for statute. If statutes could be passed to as provided in the Smith bill. All efforts their Government have been charged. provide for the gains of labor, statutes to extend the closed shop by legislation - "' One union has prevented another union . can be passed to free labor from the should ~e prohibited. from working. · domination of labor racketeers. Con­ JURISDICTIONAL STRIKES Up to October 1, 24,000,000,000 man­ gress should act instantly. The moral Many strikes have resulted because of hours had been lost, as stated by the gen­ e1Iect would be great. disputes between the two great labor tleman from Virginia. We have been in­ As I stated, I oppose business seeking unions. The jurisdictional strike is caus­ dulging, as has been said, in shadow­ to capitalize on labor troubles; I oppose ing public restlessness. President Roose­ boxing long enough. Voluntary action to labor seeking to capitalize to the detri­ velt has said, "Organizational rivalries diminish &trikes has been tried; it has ment of the Nation, in the emergency. and jurisdictional conflicts should be failed. It is time for compulsory legis­ It is time for labor to clean house. If discarded." Labor is stronger today than lation. Those who have· advocated vol­ labor itself will not crucify the Commu­ during the first World War. It should be untary legislation are not consistent. If nists and criminals in charge of labor more mature. Many strikes are wholly their argument were sound, there would unions, Congress must restrict their .op­ unnecessary. Many disputes are wholly be no legislation to provide for wages al!d erations. Otherwise, organized labor unjustifiable. hours. , The matter would be left to the will continue to work itself into public What can the average man do? The· voluntary action of employers and em­ disrepute. Widespread strikes result in answer is that he can do plenty. When ployees. If legislation will promote la­ injury to labor. The public reaction sets there was widespread unemployment, the· bor, legislation can control labor. The in, and labor may easily lose all the gains public sympathized with labor, but today· gen_tleman from Ohio [Mr. SWEENEY] it has made. The real friends of labor employment is plentiful. Public sympa­ spoke of bank failures and bankers who are those who would free and emancipate thy is not with any of the leaders of the robbed. Congress passed legislation to labor from the designing and selfish two labor houses. I say with Mercutio: · regulate banks and guarantee deposits. labor leaders and dictators. "A plague on both your houses." If Congress can control banks, Congress RAMSPECK BILL Philip Murray went· too far. when he can control labor unions. said that the closed shop must come even In the Spanish-American War men The inherent weakness of the Rams­ peck bill is that it denies protection to at the expense of the national emergency. were not conscripted for the Army. They William Green went too far when he said volunteered. Conscription was not nec­ citizens willing and anxious to work in defense industries. It may be admitted that labor would rebel in the national essary. In the World War and in the emergency. Labor must now give proof existing emergency Congress has decreed that man cannot be forced to work under the Constitution, but public opinion de­ of its good sense and of its patriotism. that the voluntary system for war serv­ If labor leadership does not show more ices is not enough. Under the Constitu.; mands that those who are protected by their country shall serve their country, responsibility, the hands of the clock are tion Congress has drafted men to fight likely to be turned backward, and the and to die, if necessary, for their coun­ and public opinion requires that 1f citi­ try. The voluntary system has been re­ zens themselves do not work, they shall gains of liberty, I repeat, will be in vain. placed by the compulsory _system in the not prevent others from working for BALLOTS Army. But, it is said that under the arming and defending their,country. The member of the labor union should Constitution men cannot be drafted to There is another inherent weakness in be as free to vote as a citizen. Who is work for their country, even in a national the Ramspeck bill. It is fundamental. the worker that he should not have the emergency. Such may be the letter of If conciliation, mediation, and voluntary right to a secret ballot? If the labor the Constitution, but when men are arbitration fail, the bill provides that the leader is to be trusted, should not the drafted for the Army, there is a law powers conferred upon the President un­ worker be trusted to vote? The laborer. higher and more important that the let­ der section 9 of the Selective Training does not sacrifice his freedom. If the ter of the statute, and that is public and Service Act of 1940 as amended shall secret ballot is good for the country, it opinion. Public opinion has been crys­ apply. That section provides that the is good for labor. - tallized in the United States. Publfc President shall have power to take pos­ VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION opinion, when crystallized, is more pow­ session of any establishment or facility, if If there is one citizen in the Republic erful than statute or constitution. When the owners thereof fail to cooperate with who should be free from violence and the voluntary system in war obtained, the Government in national defense. from intimidation, that is the citizen who the slacker was marked. Now that men The Ramspeck bill now penalizes the is working for his country. If the United have been drafted for the armed services, owners and the employers for the unwill­ States cannot protect the laborer· in his public sentiment from one end of the ingness or inability of employees to co­ right to work, from viole_nce and intimi­ land to' the other insists that while men operate. Instead of authorizing the op­ may not be drafted to work under the eration of the plant by the President dation, how can the United States pro­ law and under the Constitution, men when the employees fail to cooperate, tect its citizens from Hitler? shall not prevent others from working where the employers are anxious to aid ACCOUNTING for their country. Again, the bills were in national defense, the legislation should The public has been shocked to ascer· not hastily drawn. The Vinson bill was prevent employees unwilling to work tain that laborers willing to work in de­ reported last May. The Labor Commit­ from interfefing with the employers in fense plants have not been permitted to tee, I assume, has considered or should obtaining the services of those anxious to work unless they paid tribute to labor have considered legislation for months. work. organizations. Fees for the privilege of The 1ssue is sharp. Closed shop con- · I believe in freedom. I believe in the working, with the approval of the labor stitutes the issue. It is unpatriotic to right of individuals to work or not to unions, have been charged citizens ap­ take advantage of the emergency to force work. I believe in their right to organ­ plying for work in Army camps and de­ the closed shop. The President of the ize and to bargain collectively, but in an fense plants. · Unconscionable levies have United States was right when he advised emergency when the very existence of been made by labor organizations who John L. Lewis that Congress would not the country is involved, the country have made no accounting whatsoever. adopt the closed shop by statute. The should be put above the labor union; the The light of publicity should be turned right to work is involved. It is not a country should be put above the indi­ on. The indefensible levies should be question of collective bargaining. It is vidual, and national defense should be prohibited. The citizen should be given a question of one man or one group pre­ put above collective bargaining, and the the right to work for his · government venting another man or another group right not to work. without being compelled to pay for the from working for the country and from privilege of working. - working to arm the country for defense. THE STATUS QUO There will be time enough after the COOLING PERIOD THE HEART OF LABOR SOUND emergency has passed and peace has been Legislation should provide for a com­ Labor has made legitimate gains. restored for employers and employees to pulsory waiting period for conciliation They have maqe these gains by s.tatute. settle the closed shop, the union shop, and and arbitration before strikes. During Labor dictators and labor racketeers the open shop questions. The status quo the national emergency neither capital 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9357 nor labor should be permitted to profit The gentleman from Texas made a much production ·shall take place and at the expense of the country. The speech today and, in the first place, I the price at which aluminum shall be status quo should be maintained as I think he did no harm to the C. I. 0. about sold from plants paid for, de. wn to every have stated. The gains of labor should which he spoke. To know who the Com­ dime, by the American people. It has be conserved. The concessions of indus­ munists are or who the criminals are in gotten a contract where, in addition to try should be continued. It is no time a group of people is extremely impor­ 15 percent of all profits, for every pound for either capital or labor to profit at the tant-especially for a labor organization. of aluminum produced it .shall receive a expense of the public. It is time for It should, I earnestly agree, be labor's quarter of a cent for ov€;!rhead expenses patriotism, and it is time for those who first task to get rid of such people, and that can be accounted for and another are not animated by patriotism to be re­ to do it now. But I do want to say_:_ half-cent for overhead expenses which stri"cted in their greed and in their ambi­ what is obviously true-that if a simi­ cannot be accounted for just as a sort tion-for place and ·power. lar amount of -work were put on any of general proposition, with no account­ group in our· society, unfortunat~ly some ing necessary to justify the payments; a SHOW-DOWN_ of the same results would be obtained, contract whereby the Aluminum Cor­ Strikes in defense plants must stop. at least so· far as criminal elements are poration of America wln ·construct with A revolt against national defense is un­ concerned. The spotlight of publicity ·aovernment money and have the dis­ thinkable. A_strike in a defense plant, is always good, especially ~f it covers all posal of a· plant built at Government when _soldiers who have been _drafted the nooks and crannies and not just part expense large enough to turn out each have not been armed for a year after they of them. · year 1,000,000;000 pounds of alumina, have been drafted,js .unthinkable. There What is our basic problem -today as we the necessary element in the manufac­ is no justification.. · confront the national-defense emer­ turing of aluminum. We need that alu­ It is not a question of labor being loyal ·gency? Our basic problem is to overcome mina. But, since the bauxit~necessary to the labor union. It is a question of just one thing, and that is the willingness raw material...:_is largely coming from loyalty to America. of any group of people in America to take South America anYWaY, ·it is hard to see For five years the United States has advantage of the situation in order to why sevetal smaller alumina plants could put up with the coercive mob methods of advance their own interests, whatever not have been constructed. Why is this John L. Lewis. He is drunk with power. they may be, at the expense of the inter­ important? -Because, at the end of the -He has defied the Government of tl:e ests of the Nation or some other group. term of this contract, this Government United St1.tes.. The contest..is on. It is In this regard many groups-not just plant will be· returned to the Defense a question of closed shop or country. We one-have offended. It has been said ·Plant· Corporation and must either. be cannot fight Qur Government. We can-. many times in the course of this debate operated by the _Government or sold to not strike against the Go·1ernment. t1-1at · labor is fundamentally patriotic. some aluminum producers. Some 'of· us strikes are a luxury at .any time. In war Of course, it is. Indeed, tonight there ·have hoped that since we the people are they cannot be endured. Congress is are ships being built, there are airplanes footing the bill, some progress might be determined to save honest labor from its being constructed, there is a vast amount made toward breaking the. monopoly of racketeering leaders. Congress -is. deter:­ of labor being performed that the Mem­ -Alcoa: But here is an· a.Iumim\ plant so mined to help labor free itself from the bers of Congress could not do and upon . big there is not any c other agency in domination of labor dictators. It is time which the whole future of mankind may America that can possibly a:tlord to pur­ for a show-down. We are either for our well depend, if the defense program is as chase it from the Government or use it country, or we are against our country. important as we believe it to be. except the Aluminum Corporation ot [Here the gavel fell.] Speeches have been made over and America. So, by our very own public Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ over again in which it has been said that mQDey it turns out we are building up man, 1 yield 10 minutes to the gentleman it was necessary that the national­ not breaking down monopoly control. from California [Mr. VooRHIS]. defense program 'be not interrupted, but There are other aluminum companies, -Mr. VOORHIS of California. Mr. there have not been enough speeches one of them by the name of the Bohn Chairman, perhaps there· is some vir~ue made to suit me to point out that it is Brass & Aluminum Co. They wanted to in writing a record, becau-se some oay only because certain men have the skill and were ready to build a plant, too, and the time is going to come when the people and willingness to work hard that it is operate it for national defense. But are of America are going to be interested in possible to have any defense program ·at they going to get to build it? I do not seeing their Congress legislate, and will all. If labor feels that the Congress is know just what has happened, --but my insist that the Congress legislate inde­ acting fairly with all groups, if labor understanding is that the Aluminum pendently upon measures that will help feels that Congress is asking the same ·corporation of America is going to build build a fairer, more secure life for the degree of patriotism from other groups · this plant for its competitor to o~erate, American people over the long run. that it is asking of them, it may well and.that- the Bohn Co. somehow objects Every time within my memory when be, as Members have said, that the pass­ to.tliis arrangement, so Alcoa will get to Members have gotten up and asserted age of a reasonable bill tomorrow might operate it,· too. that the Congress should begin to. legis· be accepted, not without appreciation, by These things happen, though, in pan­ late independently, it was because we a good many people in the rank and file eled omces. They do not happen in the had a bill before us in which the appeal of labor. Working people never want . dust of city streets, where everyoody was either to vote no on something or to strike. No one would be as thankful knows about them. My main appeal to else because we were considering a as they if a magic formula could be found the Members of Congress is not that they measure . whose effect would be to so no strikes would ever be called for fail to do the thing that is necessary strengthen the position of those already again. But through the years the condi­ from ·a national standpoint with tegard strong. I tell you, the time is 'going to tions of American working people-or­ to labor, but that they dq it all the way_· come when the people of America will ganized and unorganized---have been along the line. - look to this Congress for a constructive established as they exist today because Now, it has been said that the Rams­ program which will enable them to pro­ groups of men worked and struggled peck will not stop strikes, and when that duce to the full to save human life and to establish them. is stated, I understand it to be implied · - will give our country a consumer demand I want to read a little record J::iere to­ that we have another bill before us that that will sustain the employment of day, and I have another one I am_going will. I know many, many people want all our people. The whole future of to read tomorrow. I do not know how what they call antistrike legislation, but democratic government in the world is many Members of the House realize ·I want to point out that only if and going to depend on whether we do that what the Aluminum Corporation of when men are working for their Govern­ or not. America has ask-ed of the United States ment and not for the private profit of an­ It has been a long time since I intro­ and gotten from the United States. It other can they be compelled to work. duced my bill to have a . commission has received a contract which leaves The only circumstance where it would established to deal with the problem of with the Aluminum Corporation of be possible-let alone advisable-to com­ post-war conditions. I hope we can get America control of production and price pel men to work is if the Government that some day. · 'of aluminum; that is, it can say how took over the plants; · 9358 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 2 Therefore, so far as private industry is orbitant dues from people in order to because some leaders have too great a concerned, it is not possible for Con­ become members of that union, then in thirst for power-then, as I said a while gress to pass a bill that will absolutely my judgment that is wrong. Such a sit- ago, I am not sure but what it might be prevent strikes. All we can do is every- uation can be fairly described as very better to pass such a bill than it would . thing possible to prevent them. · That I close indeed to denying them the right to be to do nothing, under all the existing agree we must do-as wisely and well as work. circumstances. For so far ·as I am con- we can. But the ultimate answer is to But on the other hand it is different ce'rned I spoke of the National Defense bring labor and management together where the employer is free to hire whom Mediation Board over and over as our and to have them sit down together and he will but where a man once hired and main hope. And I confess when not long develop principles and policies for the after he has been paid his wages is asked ago the recommendation of that Board conduct of American industry during this to join his fellows fn the union that pro- was not accepted and a strike resulted, we emergency. Rules of the game, I call it. tects them all. And so I can understand were confronted by a new and different As yet we have not them. We need them; how a bunch of men feel who through situation. I say this, even though, as I, I agree, with regard to the closed-shop the years have paid their dues and made have said above, I understand the miners' issue and all the rest. But if they are their contributions to maintain an ·or- case. · But I do not think any bill you to do maximum good it is better that in­ ganization that has built the conditions are going to pass in this House is going dustry and labor work them out together. under which ~hey work, when they regard to completely solve the problem. Mr. McKEOUGH. Will the gentleman another group of men who enjoy exactly The strike problem is only going to be yield? the same conditions, that have been built solved as you put responsibility in the Mr. VOORHIS of California. I yield to up by the efforts of the first group, but hands of the responsible leaders of labor the gentleman from Illinois. who do not make any contribution toward in America and on the shoulders of the Mr. McKEOUGH. I merely wanted to maintaining them. I say I can under- responsible leaders of industry in Amer­ make an observation in connection with stand that. And that consideration is ica. Unless that is done, and unless that the information the gentleman has pre­ involved here to. is part of the program, I do not think sented with relation to the Aluminum I see no objection to our doing things it can succeed. Corporation of .America, and I wanted to here which might bring more democratic I am glad Congress is going to do its ask him this question: The information control of labor organizations, but along job and do it without any pattern from he has given us is not generally known the line that I spoke about being fair any other branch of government, but I on the streets of the cities, is it? .awhile ago, I think if we are going to do hope we will do a good job, a job cal­ Mr. VOORHIS of California. I know that by means of legislation, in order to · culated to encourage full production, to lt is not. be entirely just we ought to do the same.· discourage strikes, not a job to give satis­ Mr .. McKEOUGH. I am happy the thing with regard to corporations, and faction to some who see only the faults gentleman ·has made it a part of the even insurance companies, so that st.~ck- of labor and few of the faults of any record, and add the hope that some­ holders would in all c:..ses have something other group. body .might tell .the people in a scare to say about what is going on in their .Labor, I know, wants no bill at all. I headline tonight about this as they would businesses. have letters and telegrams from indus- if five men had stopped work for a bet­ What is necessary is for the American trialists urging that a bill be passed, but _ter wage. people to feel that this Congress is really one that will affect only labor and not Mr. VOORHIS of California. I thank putting the national interest first, re- themselves. I am trying to look ahead the gentleman. All of this information gardless of what pressure group is into the future, and I am wondering is in the files of the Truman committee. involved. whether we may not be doing labor itself They have brought. out much of it. There has been talk about bulldozing a disservice ~f we do nothing on tamar­ Now I just want to ask the Members and bludgeoning Congressmen. I have row. Perhaps the results of that-given of the I:Iouse who are present to consider been bludgeoned and bulldozed a good all the antilabor feeling that unquestion­ what the alternative is to organized deal by a lot of different people on most ably exists-will produce some measure labor. I am not blind to its faults, any every bill, and I want to say that by and · ·here at some not far distant day that more than to the faults of other groups. large the labor representatives that come really would drive that wedge between Indeed, I think the day is going to come to see you are certainly' quite as reason- labor in Ainerica and their Government, when the main scourge of mankind will able and quite as understanding as any which every destructive element in the be power-power of. finance monopoly, other group of people who come here Nation desires. Above all I want to avoid power of industrial monopoly, power of with a particular interest to protect. that possibility. tight labor groups with closed member­ I hope I am going to be able to move But everything will depend on the kind ship and few elections-yes, and ppwer to strike out the last word tomorrow of bill we finally are to vote on when we of government. Our job-ancl it is no because I have some other things I want come to the end of a long day on to­ easy one-is to see that no power be­ to say, and I want to say them very, morrow. comes so great that it can destroy pther very much. [Here the gavel fell.] values or rights of people, and to do it We heard today about 2,400,000 man- Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair- in such way that we do not make gov­ days being lost. That is too much. man, I Yield 10 minutes to the gentleman ernment itself all powerful. Ideally, if all employers were fair and from New York [Mr. MARCANTONIO]. But suppose we did not have any or­ all labor perfect there should not have Mr. MARCANTONIO. Mr. Chairman, ganized labor in America today. I tell been any lost. But I would just like to what has been lost sight of in the entire you, you would have chaotic conditions. suggest that that is about two-thirds as discussion with regard to labor and in­ You would find it utterly impossible to _much as the man-days that were lost dustrial disputes, in the press and on the organize the defense program we are because we took a holiday on the 4th of floor of this House as well as in the other trying to organize. And the conditions of July, and that it is probably nowhere near body, is the relationship of the labor o'ijr working people would be deplorable. as much as the man-days that have been problem to the kind of government the If we are going to have organized labor, lost by industrial accidents. I know that people desire. then it is necessary, of course, for us to does not excuse it and I know ho'W peo- I believe history will demonstrate con­ recognize the thing that labor has to do pie throughout the country feel, and I elusively that you cannot have a demo­ in order to live and be effective. know how Members of Congress feel cratic form of government unless you [Here the gavel fell.] about this situation. But earnest, will- have a free org:tnized labor movement. Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ ing, enthusiastic work and production An enslaved or government-regulated man, I yield 4 additional minutes to the are more precious to us now than any- labor movement is the basis of fascism in gentleman from California. thing else. Let us not ·forget that to- Italy, of nazi-ism in Germany, and the Mr. VOORHIS of California. Now morrow. If we can get a bill that is fair corporate state in all the other various about the closed shop. If a .labor organi­ and just and that does not represent an Fascist countries, such as Spain. zation has a closed shop, and if in unwarranted attempt to take advantage We ought to bear in mind some of the addition to that that labor organization of all labor because some people are in its history of antilabor laws. We shall find, exacts an exorbitant initiation fee or ex- ranks who ought not to be there and for example, that the program which is 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD.-HOUSE 9359, being advanced here in these four bills We have heard Member after Member France and are now rewarded by Hitler originated in the Palazzo Chigi, the Gov­ in this House and we have read article with the rule of France. ernment palace of Benito Mussolini, in after article in the press in which we Daladier and Reynaud, who carried out 1926. On April 3 of that year several de­ have been told that France fell because the orders of these Vichy men at that crees were issued. One decree outlawed there was a New Deal in France and be­ time, these Vichy men and Munich men, strikes; another decree prohibited collec­ cause, in particular, French workers were who had sold out to Hitler at Munich tive bargaining; and the last decree dis­ given the right of collective bargaining and later at Sedan-these same people solved free trade-unions and substituted and that the French labor movement were not interested in the defense of in their place so-called Fascist syndicates was permitted to win its struggle for a France. They were concerned with but controlled, regulated, and maneuvered by 40-hour week. We have been told that, one proposition. These traitors wanted the government. because of the progress the French peo­ to hold on to ·their profits and monopoly The demagogy used to promulgate ple had achieved, France fell, . that just as .most of those who are seeking .those decrees and put them over on the France was destroyed and that France this legislation are. concerned with one Italian people is the same demagogy we could not fight. Let us examine the facts. proposition, and .that is to hold on to. ·hear in this House today, the demagogy Yes; the French workers were working their monopolistic interests, and their of such phrases as "the Nation r.omes 40 hours a week,. but at the time the 40- continued exploitation of the American :first and before any individual group," hour week law was abolished there were workers. They .pr.efer~ to - figbt American. and that "defense of the country comes 3,000,000 unemployed -in France-3,000,- labor rather: than destroy Hitlerism, just :first before that of· labor." In Musso­ 000 unemployed and the 40-hour law as the Frerich traitors preferred to de~ lini's so-called Labor-Charter, we find lan­ was abolished at a time when. because stroy French labor rather than . fi_ght guage which is very, very similar and be­ of the large number of unemployed it was Hitler. The Vichy men sold out: France. speaks the same political philosophy and most needed in the interest of defense They gave their country to Hitler because program that _is being advanced here by -production. But it was not the 40-hour they feared that French workers who ·those who are promulgating the legisla­ law which made France fall, because were in uniform and .who had bayonets tion which is before us. For instance, when France went to war, there w.as no would restore a. free, democratic labor "The Italian nation is an organization 40-hour law. There was no free French movement in France, and continue to having ends, a life, and means superior labor movement. The 200 families of struggle for a decent standard of living in power and duration to the single indi­ the Bank of .France wh.o really controlled fol'. Fierichmen. These Vichy men who viduals or· groups of individuals compos- , the Government .of France. who_estab"": promulgated these. laws, laws similar to ing it." -lished throughcut France fascist groups, the law pro.posed by the gentleman ·from What a similarity. I do not charge such. as the Croix de Feu and the Cagou~ .Virginia [Mr. SMITH], similar, to the bill that the gentlemen who have been using lards, groups doing the bidding of the of the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. this similar language on the floor of the 200 families Gf the Bank of France, R'>MSPECKJ, and similar to the proposal House today have taken it from Musso­ which went out and tried to disrupt and of the other gentleman from . Georgia lini's Labor Charter, but I submit that destr-oy the labor unions, and when they [Mr. VINSON J, were enemies of French the same political- philosophy and the failed to do it the minions of the 200 labor and riow history damns _them as same class interests which motivated the families of the Bank of France-· enemies of their own country. Remem­ Fascists of Italy and Benito Mu'ssolini to [Here the gavel fell.] ber that the same identical laws were destroy labor unions and establish ·a Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ forced on France before France went FaEcist, corporate state, that that same man, I yield the gentleman from New -into war by those who, as Hitler's tools, philosophy and the same class interests York 10 additional minutes. rule France today. So, when we speak are motivating the overwhelming major­ Mr. MARCANTONIO. The minions of about France, let us bear these facts in ity of those gentlemen in this House and the 200 families of France in the French mind. Let us then:ifore remember that those ladies and gentlemen throughout Senate, in the Chamber of Deputies, and Fiance fell, not .because of social leg!s!a­ the country who are seeking to impose -in the government of Daladier, wh.at did tion and a free, untrammeled labor upon a free United States an enslaved they bring about? They brought about movement in France. France fell be­ labor movement. the abolition of the 40-hour law. The · cause the democratic labor movement When Hitler came into power· in 1933, · government passed laws forbidding was destroyed, destroyed by Munich men, on January 30, he, too, emulated Musso­ strikes. It broke strikes with the bayo­ by Vichy men, by the 200 families of the Iini, and in order to firmly establish his net. It sent to jail labor leaders. So at Bank of France, who were interested in rule, it was neceEsary that the only real the moment that France went into war, monopoly and profit and not in defense ·opposition to nazi-ism and to Hitlerism there was no French free-labor move­ of their country against Hitler. The in Germany should be destroyed, namely, ment. When France went into war, faGt that they still own niost of what they a free, democratic, German labor move­ France was in the same condition with owned before the capitulation of France, ment. Democratic Germany died be­ regard to labor· as we· will be if we pass and that they still possess most of their cause many of the leaders of. democratic this legislation. So, the France that went monopolistic interests, arid most of every­ Germany permitted Adolf Hitler to kill into war was a France without a free- thing they had before, proves conclu-. and destroy the democratic labor move­ ·labor movement, it was a France with a sively that in selling out France, by divid­ ment of Germany, and Adolf Hitler, too, shackled-labor movement and the same ing the people in France with this kind issued decrees, and those decrees did people who shackled the labor movement of legislation and by destroying the labor what? First, they outlawed strikes; sec­ of France were the same people who to­ movement, they were serving the in­ ond, they forbade wage disputes; and, day are ruling France as tools of Hitler, terests of Adolf Hitler and not of the third, they abolished collective bargain­ the same people who sold out France to French nation. ing. This was done immediately after Hitler on the battlifield, the same who Mr. RAMSPECK. Mr. Chairman, will he was appGinted Chancellor. are today bending the knee _before Adolf _the gentleman Yield? So we see that in Germany, Italy, and Hitler. Yes; the whole trouble was that Mr. MARCANTONIO. Yes. in Franco-Spain, a free, democratic labor they were more interested in destroying Mr. RAMSPECK. I wonder how the movement was destroyed in order to per­ the labor movement of France than they gentleman accounts for the difference in petuate fascism on all of the people. were in the defense of France, and events the result. in Italy, Germany, and in And let me say to the farmers in par­ have proven it. Take the gentleman France, under the theory that he has ticular that .a shackled labor movement who went yesterday with Marshal Petain expressed here, that what caused the will be the weapon employed for an of­ to visit Goering, Count de Brinon, one downfall of France, was destroying a free fensive against the liberties of all the of the leaders in the movement to enslave labor movement, and also secured the American people and that includes the labor, or Laval, Darlan, Petain, Weygand, destruction of it in Italy, when we all farmer as well. all of them, Vichy men, Municheers, Hit­ know that it was destroyed in Germany Further, there is one great, and I think ler's tools today, were leaders in the con­ and yet France fell and Germany became it is the greatest, historic example which spiracy which destroyed the French labQr strong. is a deadly parallel to the situation which movement. They destroyed labor and Mr. MARCANTONIO. Mr. Chairman, now confronts us in this House, and that thereby conditioned France. for Hitler's I .am very glad the gentleman asked that is France. victory over France. They betrayed ·(luestion. The men who did it in France, 9360 'CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 2 who destroyed the labor movement of and the gentleman from Nsw York enter sire on the- part of the gentleman who is France, had to deal with a Nazi Germany into that debate when we have a larger now questioning him to shackle labor? and a Fascist Italy. France was a demo­ attendance. Mr. MARCANTONIO. No; I want to cratic country. What they had tn de­ Mr. MARCANTONIO. May I also say say this with respect to the gentleman termine was whether they were going to this, with all due deference to the gen­ from Georgia, that he personally has fight Hitler or whether they were going tleman from Michigan [Mr. HoFFMAN], been a great defender of labor on that to appease him and capitulate to him. that if we followed his views in this House committee and ofi that committee. I have Their natural interest as real French­ we would go back to the 10-cents-an-hour bad occasion to say this on the floor of men dictated an all-out :fight against Hit­ standard for the workers of this country. the House before. But, unfortunately, ler, but time and events have shown us I am sure the gentleman would think in this particular instance, unwittingly, that they fought anti-Fascist labor in­ that was fine Americanism, because it the gentleman is advancing through his stead, and did not fight Hitler. They raised the spirit of rugged individualism proposed legislation, legislation which were antilabor and Fascist. All of the about which he is always talking. represents a political philosophy, which fighting they did was against the anti­ Mr. HOFFMAN. You are displaying represents a movement in the direction of Hitler French working people, and in your usual ignorance of my views. · Fascism. I certainly regret very much, their interests as Fascists capitulated to Mr. MARCANTONIO. I do not want particularly because of the gentleman's Hitler. Certainly, I am sure that the gen­ to attribute to the gentleman any charge record, to see his name on this kind of tleman from Georgia will not advance of ignorance. It is not necessary. legislation. the alleged efficiency of Nazi slave labor The CHAIRMAN. The time of the The CHAffiMAN. The time of the and the very much flaunted efficiency of gentleman· from New York bas again gentleman from New York has again ex­ Fascist labor as an excuse to substitute expired. pired. for our labor the kind of labor movement Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Chair­ that would exist if this proposed legis­ man, I yield the gentleman 2 additional man, I yield 2 minutes to the distin­ lation became law. minutes. guished gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Mr. HOFFMAN. Mr. Chairman, will Mr. MARCANTONIO. I do not want D' ALESANDRO]. the gentleman yield? ~ to attribute to the gentleman any charge Mr. D'ALESANDRO. Mr. Chairman, Mr. MARCANTONIO. Yes. of ignorance, but I certainlY-- . few cities in the country are more active Mr. HOFFMAN. I am after informa­ Mr. HOFFMAN. I said ignorance of in behalf of the defense program than tion. Is the labor of Russia free? my views. That old 10 cents an hour industrial Baltimore which I have the Mr. MARCANTONIO. We are learn­ bought more eggs than your 50 cents an honor and privilege to represent, where ing a great deal about Russia. We were hour does now. the most important activities of our na­ told for years that the Russians could Mr. MARCANTONIO. Those eggs tional-defense program are to be found. not fight, and we are finding that they must be stale by this time. But certainly Conservatively speaking, 100,000 men . can, and as we receive more and more you do not want to go back to the day and women are engaged in defense work truthful information about Russia we when you paid labor 10 cents an hour, do in Baltimore and its vicinity without:. any Will learn that labor rules in Russia. I you? serious disruptions to the defense pro­ also say that the Russian people would Mr. HOFFMAN. No. gram. not be fighting like tigers if they did not Mr. MARCANTONIO. And American True there have been differences, but feel that they were fighting for some­ trade-unions have lifted labor from that they have all been amicably adjusted, be­ thing that belonged to them, and that is 10 cents an hour to a decent wage and cause in Baltimore management and an irrefutable conclusion. you want to destroy trade-unions in labor have cooperated fully in order to Mr. HOFFMAN. Apparently the Ger­ America. speed production. mans are :fighting, too. Mr. HOFFMAN. Ob, no; I do not. As a member of the Committee on Mr. MARCANTONIO. Oh, yes; and Mr. MARCANTONIO. Oh, yes; you do. Labor, I have for the past 2 weeks at­ the Nazis are beginning to run. 1 am Mr. HOFFMAN. I do not want to de- tended meetings of said committee and confident that the Nazis will be defeated, · stroy a condition which makes it possible considered methods of dealing with stop­ and they will be defeated precisely be- . for a man who works with his hands to pages and threatened stoppages in de­ cause the people of Germany, who are fense production. Members of Con­ not free, and the peoples of the other ride in an automobile. Mr. MARCANTONIO. You want to gress, labor representatives and employer enslaved nations of Europe will join up representatives were invited to appear with the democratic people of the world destroy the right of American workers to bargain collectively; you want to destroy before the committee to give the com­ to overthrow Hitler and Hitlerism. mittee the benefit of their views and sug.. Mr. HOFFMAN. May I ask one ques­ the right of American workers to strike, and when you _do that you destroy. what gestions in this regard. tion more? I have always admired the As a result of these hearings and de­ gentleman's ability to make an argument made it possible for American workers to obtain a decent living. liberations, it is my bumble opinion that on the :floor. I always understood-not compulsory arbitration will break down .always, but for some time prior to the Mr. HOFFMAN. There is no founda­ tion for any such statement as that. the morale of the people and impede the entrance of Russia into this war-I un­ defense program. Representatives of derstood the gentleman to be against- Mr. MARCANTONIO. The record speaks for itself. both the manufacturers association and Mr. MARCANTONIO. Oh, if the gen­ labor agree on this. Unity is what is tleman will turn to the REcORD of October Mr. HOFFMAN. You are right, it needed to speed production. I would 16 he will find that I discussed my stand does, and it proves that what you are . like to see the President, as Commander on the war thoroughly. I am not going saying is incorrect. in Chief, call a conference of representa­ to discuss it again now. I went into that Mr. MARCANTONIO. There is no tives of Government, employer and -em­ fully on that occasion and will do so again other inference to be drawn from the ployee, and work out a set of principles when we discuss foreign policy. ·I now gentleman's position than that he seeks to carry on our defense production, so refer the gentleman to what I said at that to lower the standard of living of the that defense production may continue. time. I think the gentleman is trying to American workers. After parties to a labor dispute fail to take up my time on something that is Mr. RAMSPECK. Will the gentleman reach an agreement through a process extraneous. yield to me? of collective bargaining, conciliation or Mr. HOFFMAN. Oh, no; indeed. I Mr. MARCANTONIO. I yield. mediation and voluntary arbitration am willing· for you to have an hour. Mr. RAMSPECK. The. gentleman re­ should be employed. Mr. MARCANTONIO. . If I had an­ ferred to the bills now before the House I think Congress should consider care­ other hour I would be delighted to give and stated they are trying to do to labor fully before extending the responsibili­ you a lecture on that subject. You agree what was done to labor in France. The ties of the Federal Government further to give me a half an hour and I will give gentleman who is now speaking served on into the field of managing-operating and you a lecture on it. the Labor Committee with the gentleman taking over private business. We need Mr. HOFFM:AN. Come over to my from New York. I would like to ask the laws today which carry with them a spirit office. Others are not interested. gentleman from New York if he ever saw of cooperation by all groups in our Na­ Mr. VINSON of Georgia. May I sug­ any indication during that mutual serv­ tion, dedicated as we are to the destruc- gest that the gentleman from Michigan ice on the Labor· Committee of any de- tion of Hitlerism. · - 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9361 In my opinion, we must remember that "Whereas the menace of Hitlerism repre­ Mr. VINSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, legislation should serve to express the sents a real threat to the security of the I ask unanimous consent that the -gentle­ American people, to our institutions, to our public will, democratically arrived at. economic structure, to our American way of man from Texas [Mr. DIES], who spoke We should not try with bludgeon, or life, to our free way to worship as we chopse, today on the pending bill, may be privi­ coerce any groups. In these times we and 't9 our freedom and liberty which we leged to revise and extend his remarks need national unity, and we have to cherish as the most precious heritage of our and include certain documents. work for national unity, not merely say forefathers; and · The SPEAKER. Without objection, it we want it. We need the kind of legis­ "Whereas we are witnessing the destruc­ is so ordered. lation which will promote harmony in tion and overrunning of the defenseless free ·There was no objection. our country, giying us the strength and democratic nations that have· fallen under Mr. D'ALESANDRO. Mr. Speaker, I energy we need so that we can unitedly the iron heel and yoke of Hitlerism; and - _ "Whereas organized labor recognizes the ask unanimous consent to revise and ex­ defend our institutions against any and inevitable truth that Hitlerism is the nega­ tend the remarks I made in the Com­ an aggressors, no matter from which tion of any kind of free association and is mittee of the Whole and to include a ocean they may come. Let us get labor the complete enslavement ·of society: There­ resolution adopted by a group at a meet­ and management to cooperate fully and fore be it . ing in Baltimore. let us try not to embitter any part of our "Resolved, That labor in general, in recog­ The SPEAKER. ·without objection, it population. nizing its historical ·position in this world is so ordered. · I ask unanimous consent to extend my. crisis, stand united for the full support of There was no objection. remarks in the RECORD and include thel'e­ ~he fo~eign policy of the United States G,ov-_ in a resolution adopted by various groups ernment and render all possible aid to those LEAVE OF ABSENCE brave countries who are fighting Hitlerism By unanimqus consent leave of ab­ at a mass meeting held in Baltimore on. to the finish; and be it further November 13, 1941: sence was granted to: - "Resolved, That organized labor accept in · Mr. BoEHNE, for 3 days, on account ·of Allied Veterans' Committee of Maryland. full the responsibility of the hour, and in · · Amalgamated Clothing Workers of· America, order to insure the defeat of Hitlerism and important business. Congress of Industrial Organizations. I_lazi-ism, the assembly line of the Na:tion Mr. / fiBBOTT