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Censorship. Most of the correspondents are with the Allied forward units in Tunisia. They write their dispatches and have them censored in the field, then send them by courier to "AF HQ" at Algiers. Dispatches are stamped "censored at source," wait their turn for cable space, are then sent to London...
...unions at fault, and neither the CIO nor the AF of L have any national ruling against Negro workers. In fact, the CIO is actively engaged in stamping out such practices whenever they are noticed. The AF of L is the main offender. Labor leader Green merely shrugs his shoulders and pleads impotence when a union under his organization such as Kaiser's record-breaking shipbuilders refuse an equal voice to all races. Negroes can join and pay dues, but they have to hold separate meetings and they are allowed no representation in national conventions...
Before December 7, 1941, this country was seared by a Lewis-Murray split within the CIO, a CIO-AF of L fight within the general ranks, and a Labor-Management struggle within the nation as a whole. Since Pearl Harbor, two of those splits have undergone a healing process. The government has taken control over all negotiations of wage contracts. Both Mr. Murray and Mr. Green have sworn off jurisdictional disputes. And right now a series of meetings is being conducted in Washington by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, NAM, CIO and AF of L "to explore ways...
...John L. Lewis, starving for personal power at a time when group cooperation is vital, still lives in the thirties. Crying that "the CIO is trying to destroy your entire organization by criticizing UMW officers," he has taken the miners who first followed him out of the AF of L, and led them, with very different purpose, into a new camp. This time he is not merely bucking a Roosevelt or a Murray. He is bucking the combined will of American Labor to unite and cooperate in time of emergency. Under the force of that will, he shall be crushed...
Since many of the defendants were officials in the aggressive and militant Local 544 of the Teamsters' Union, which last June climaxed a running scrap with the AF of L by breaking away to join the CIO, the Minneapolis convictions can also be confused with the problem of labor strife. Thirdly, to allow the matter of attitude towards the war to bear any weight here is a great mistake. The trial was brought forward in November, when the America First, Committee was as vigorous in its anti-war stand as was Local...