AMERICAN LABOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22900, 1 December 1937, Page 13

AMERICAN LABOUR

FACTIONS STILL DIVIDED MR. LEWIS MILITANT (Received November 30, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 21) The leader of the Committee for Industrial Organisation, Mr. John L. Lewis, predicting that the United States was entering "another economic tailspin," told a meeting of unionists that the workers must organise to obtain the right to work when they want to, not when Messrs Ford and Chrysler want them to. A militant Labour movement was essential because the Government had developed a passion for economy while the employers were turning workers into the street by tens of thousands. The collective voice of Labour must be heard in the Legislature, where statesmen sit and talk —and sometimes think. The efforts to make peace between the C.1.0. and the American Federation of Labour appear to be seriously threatened in consequence of the rejection by the federation of the proposal by the C.1.0. for a partial truce. Instead the A.F.L. is demanding a final and full peace. It is understood that the C.LO. has requested the A.F.L. to grant it industrial charters in mass production and the maritime industry, also in certain minor industries, in return for which the C.1.0. would rejoin the federation.