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. ee w"The Office of War Mobilization Director Jasies +3 Byrnes and Stabilization Director Fred Vinson, whe have’ ine TISTS _ |\sietted to these disrupters and saboteurs of stabiiization, , . . ‘and still continue to do so, share in this responsibility. Vinson’s veto of the eight cent raise to workers, | IALLENGE [20ers : eo tee TE Pa . ties. The has allowed itself to be mechan EDITORIAL hamstrung, p20 RE S of more than a million members | * In the mipe decision the WLB took months to find } affiliates, in convention at Buffalo, |a loophole for d formal recognition of portal to portal, mendation of their executive derground travel) pay, in the dusty files of the wage- : pledge without qualification. They hour administration, but they steered clear of the more ove it as unanimously as the board flexible provision in the stabilization act iteelf which gives" in behalf of such a large segment of them and the Byrnes-Vinson offices authority to take ery timely and holds significance any measures necessary to aid in the prosecution of the - view of the present critical moment war. The fact that coal production was falling off and in faces a test. . (manpower had been flowing out of the coa] industry, was sht will mark another contract dead- ‘them not a sufficient enough reason for a ruling. "At this writing more than 60,000-———The decision giving the Anthracite miners the ridicu- with. at least the tacit approval of lous raise of 82 cents a day, also because of a mathe- gt ‘a in the hands’ matical strpit-jacket, ia further evidence of the board's whole situation is again in the = policy, The very jeast the WLB members could have done ‘Monday, from all indications, Lewis was to join with the four labor representatives’ demand -blown general strike of coal miners. - for a @ oo. . . _- Se the railroad workers are‘taking @ . oo _« 1 ; «+ The employers are responsible for the present situa4 . bd i tion by their insistence that profits go above all other ! occasions pointed to the justice of conaiderations. Their position dovetails perfectly with that # coal miners and railroad workers. of Lewis, for neither is be interested in furthering pro-- jcized sharply the War Labor Board duction, placing his defeatist policy above all other con- ithorities for clinging to an outworn siderations. If the employers and Lewis were interested + * . $n production they could have easily agreed upon a pro- d for a wage adjustment to enable “fram that coe spending ap incentive hy cont outst 1 with the cost of living rise. But we gat even the WLS would have to approve. .°' ° i ye paid again and again. Such adjust- ~ ; : . . ‘ by keeping the no-strike pledge and Finally, the labor movement itself is not absolved of e stabilization program. We regard responsibility; first because of the disunity in fts ranks, ‘ogram as absolutely essentia] for we and secondly because Lewis. utilizing this disunity, is able ‘to cultivate some support, when every union in the country Sation would be mos! harmful to the c r c emmon people in general. All adjust- should hold him up as an object of scorn. Isn't it J wre be made for the purpose of atrength., L. Lewis who presented labor with the Smith-Con bat Premier. . . —— . EE aus “os jlity for the failure of this program wblicans in Congress who, jointly with mocrats, scuttled the administration's am. They have emasculated measures |'1- é oo pe and at this very moment continue to ‘ . hey engineered the notorious Rum! soak- 2 9D - ‘am and are now scheming further steps er! otek Mik “Ee ine; they killed the President's $25,000 nd greased the mgy-for a Roman holiday co 30 | te . @ all: oe a This is a clipping fren Sete of —— ee tL tg oe re