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American Federation of Labor National Convention, Cincinnati Labor Omnia J'incit REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTY-SEVENTH CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN 'FEDERATION OF LABOR HELD AT · CINCINNATI, OIDO NOVEMBER 15 TO 22, INCLUSIVE 1948 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR 1948 WILLIAM GREEN ......................................" ............................... Pr·esident Washington, D. C. GEORGE MEANY ......................................................S ec?·eta?·y-T?·ea u1·er Washington, D. C. · WM. L. HUTCHESON .............................................. F,irst Vice-P1·esident Indianapolis, Ind. MATTHEW WoLL ........... c.... ................................ Second Vice-P1·esident New York, N. Y. JOSEPH N. WEBER ................................................ Thi?·d Vice-President Los Angeles, Calif. GEO. M. HARRISON .............................................. Fourth Vice-PTesident Cincinnati, Ohio DANIEL J. TOBIN .................................................... Fifth Vice-P1·es'iclent Indianapolis, Ind. HARRY C. BATES .................................................... Sixth Vice-President Washington, D. C. W. D. MAHON ....................................................Seventh Vice-P1·esident Detroit, Mich. W. C. BIRTHRIGHT......... ..................................... Eighth Vice-President Indianapolis, Ind. · W. C. DOHERTY.. .................................................. Ninth Vice-P1·esident Washington, D. C. DAVID DVBINSKY .................................................. Tenth Vice-President New York, N.Y. CHARLES J. MACGOWAN ................................Eleventh Vice-P1·esident Kansas City, Kansas HERMAN WIN'FER .............................................. Twelfth Vice-Pr·esident Chicago, Illinois D AN W . TRACY ............................................ Thirteenth Vice-President Washington, D. C. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR . 399 I just had my firs t opportunity to meet a Liquor Advertising distinguished gentlemnn in the service of our Page 160, Exeeuti,·e Counc il' s R e port.) country, Mr. A\•e r ell Harriman. I looked for· ward to it a long time. COl!MITTEE C HAJR::>fA~ GEORGE: U n · J don't suppose any newcomer to the halls a more cordial greeting Liquor Advertis ting the Ex­ of Congress hn s hnd d er the caption coming to this Stnte of milk and honey and e ·utive Council r eports the introduction of fonr leaf clo,·ers than I ha d when I was m et bills to prevent the mo,·ing in Interstate out here in the lobby of this fine hotel by the State Federation of Co mm erce o! newspapers nn d pub1ica tions President of our own Labor, Mr. Ol son, and hy Mr. Tobin, thnt carrying nch ·ertisements or 1h e liquor indus· grand gentleman of the International Team­ try: sters, and Mr. P etrillo of the Musicians or­ ganization and other dis tinguished men who " -re helie,·e this bill discriminatory against were there to sny h ello. I have never been <li . tribution of legit imate products, the man­ escorted by so mnny people to one room in \afncturing of which gh·es mnny job oppor· my life. I h ave watch ed men in court houses city halls that hnd a certain number of Amer· a nd t11nitie nt good wages to thousand ·· of men in blue coats escort them to small lea n workers. rooms, but no amount of escorting was ever cordially as that which nlways op- done so w ell or so 'Ve r ecommend the Council was mine todny. Thank you, thank you very pose such legis)ation. · much . I mo,·e the adoption of this section of Now, thi s is my Yncntion period. I haYe been telling 1\Irs. Humphrey for nigh onto ~he committee's report. five years that sooner or Inter I was going to The motion w as seconded n"nd cn. rried. take a vacation so she snid the best way that tnke it w as for her to sta)• dings President w e could possibly , At this point in the procee home so she wouldn ' t have to be bothered t~r ee n interrupted the report of t.he Commit­ with me for n while nnd me to run around tee on Legislation, to introduce to the con· and do jus t what I wanted to do. That' s een doing. I told Mr. Dubinsky rt Humphrey.) whnt we have b wntion Mayor Hube that I went up to New Y01·k last Tuesday just to make sure that the International Lad)· PRESIDENT GREEN : One of the grent Garment 'Yorker's union was getting along events of this convention to which we have a ll right wl1i le the boss was out of town. dues are coming looked forward with pleasnnt antic ipation I can report to llim tl1at the m w ell. The memhership is thor~ug\lly loyal. now will take place. A g ren t h ero is here, I understand that two or three of them are one who won a great victory in the las t ha ck to work since elect.ion day, November lish · elec tion. 2nd, which is, of course, a great accomp ment. I cannot descr ibe to him the feeling of I have been down in ' Vashington, D . C. plea ure and sntisrnction we experienced house hunting and I want the delegates to this when w e read of the de feat of notoriou• honorable body and this great organization to enator Ball and 1he election of Mayor know that nfter five days of house hunting, you see a Senator-Elect who is going to be n IIumphrey. devil on wh eels when it comes to housing, De· Perhaps you will recall the impressi,·c, lieve me. e loquent s peech he delivered at the San Fran­ I don't know whnt has l1nppened to this e hnve four children is no wns held lnst October. country. Because w ~ i sc o com·ention which reason people shouldn ' t wont us to have a J~nowin g him as y ou do it is unn ec e ss ar~' house. Every plnce I go they say, "We have fo r m e to dwell further upon his great abil· two-bedroom l10u es, we have three-bedroom I sny, ''No, I need u. four· , upon his qualifications, and upon lti s houses.'' And ity bedroom house now, nnd I'm only 37 years lH'Culinr fi tn ess o sen ·e ns a great leader old, and I gh·e you no guarantee for the in the Senate of the 'Cni ted States. future. ' ' for optimism and con­ Without further ado. I a m going to present This is a great ti ny fid ence. I don't know how Mr. Green and Mr. 1o you thi s man who occupies a very large Tobin and Mr. Petrillo and the rest of these 11ln ce in our henr t$1; an d in our nlfectionntc people feel about it . hut I have a little con­ a tion is going to go right ,-~g ard s. :Mayor Humphrey, Senator-elect fidence that the popul ahead, see. frnm the g reat State of )Iinnesota. Really, there is s o much on my heart and (A ~ tnnding ovation wn s g h·en Senator· so much to sny th nt I scarcely know where e lcd IIumphrey .) to start. I told some of my friend s that I brought a mnnuscript along. This is unusual. I suppose it is almost a sign of weakness, may be a sign of mental fatigue, but I did HUBERT HUMPHREY want to be preprired to say what was on n1y teart and to talk to my friends, because I (Senator-Elect from Minnesota) can honestly say I have never had finer friends who hnve a sk ed less from m e and who '.rhank you ~ e ry mucl1, President Green. ha,·e given more to me than my friends in the 400 REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS American Fedemtion of LulJor, nnd I wnnt to it wns th e issue upon which this el ection thank you. should be decided, that not only did the folks might in the cities turn that kind of argument I was trying to think just how we Indies and gentlemen, I thought I had better tell you aside, but put it down, get going, and that only 10 counti es out of 87 counties cast nbout the visit of Mr. Green, your great s that were Ci ty aren. He spoke a vote in favor of the candidate President, to the Twin -Hartley. Ten out of eiglity·scven. at ou.r big auditorium in Minneapolis and for Taft gave one of the most brilliant speeches of this That's alii entire campaign. I am convinced t hat the The men and th e women that were out on people of Minnesota were pleased and sur· our fnrm s- and, li sten, we have good farms, prised that here, one of the great statesmen nlmost a s good us th~y have in Ohio and of the labor movement of this world, spoke Kentucky. \Ve ha ve wonderful farm people. out to the people of Minnesotn, not just And their sons nnd daughters have gone into about the issues of labor, but spoke -to them the cities as sons and daughters from all farm in n. spirit of understnnding, with information, families ho,·e gone into the cities, and the with competence, with intelligent underst.and· young men and women in the unions wrote ing, of the problems of the people on the letters home to their parents of the farm, to !arms in that great Midwe te1'n state. their brothers a nd their sisters on the farms, g stu tions. you to know that and in t he garuges and the fill in And, Mr. Green, I want a leLter·writing campaign. wherever I went in Minnesota-and believe We had m£, I went a lot of places-I found people :Mr. Hnrrirnnn, they tell me it worked with saying thn t they were tremendously pleased, Americn nrHl Italy in the elections. I was told and that they were inspired by your words that one of the great weapons that we had the evening that you spoke in the Audi· in winning those Italian elections for Cree· torium in beha!C of my cnndiducy, the can· dom and demo cracy was the fact that Italian· didacy of the Presiden t of the U nited States, Americans in this beloved nation o( ou.rs nod of the liberal Democratic Congressmen took time out to send n letter to their kin· that you and your organization did so much folk, to their r elntives, beyond the sen, and to help elect.
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