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...March 2, Donald Nelson said we would have to raise our war output 25 per cent, and that he favored the Murray plan as one way to do it. Then, on March 8, management got its chance to kill the Murray plan. On that day, the New Jersey CIO declared that the Jersey war plants were utilizing "only 49 per cent of their productive capacity," mainly because industry had failed "to use the second and third shift...
Secondly, no mention was made of the mass reaction of wideawake citizens of Detroit, led by the city's powerful trade union movement. The county organizations of the CIO and AFL joined with Negro and white church, youth, fraternal and civic groups to form and support the Sojourner Truth Citizen's Committe. This Committee held a mass meeting last week which enthusiastically approved a four-point program demanding the punishment of the Klan, the city, and the government officials who directly and indirectly instigated the riot...
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...
...Nobody seems to realize that we're very close to losing it. What does it matter whether the government or the employers pay unemployment benefits to the Boston fishermen, as long as the army gets the fish? What does it matter whether the AF of L or the CIO organizes the Budd Manufacturing Company, so long as MacArthur gets the tanks? If the defense effort keep on going the way it is going now, Mrs. Roosevelt will be hanging from the nearest oak tree, John L. Lewis will be dangling right next to her, and Henry Ford won't know...
Labor provides one of the best examples of a current thread which will reappear in the post-war tapestry. The CIO has been plugging for the creation of industry-labor councils which would give the workers a direct hand in the deciding and executing of company policies. Labor will still be waging a major campaign for these councils long after the next armistice has been signed and sealed...