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Murray Urges Unions Study
Developing World Politics

NEW YORK—CIO president
Philip Murray has ealled upon
all CIO affiliates and members
to dedicate the next four weeks,
which he designated as “Wnited
Nations Month” within the CIO,
to study and discussion of the
basie principles of U.S. foreign
policy.

Asking that attention be paid
specifically to the world labor
conference, the Bretton Woods
and. Dumbarton Oaks proposals,
the Crimea conference and the
impending San Francisco confer-
ence, Murray said:

“American labor, because it
has always been in the fore-
front in the fight against fas-
cism, has a great responsibil-
ity to see that the fight stays
won, to educate itself on the
basie principles of our foreign
policy and then to join with other
patriotic citizens to impress

upon Congress the will of the

American people.” At the San
Francisco conference on Aipril
25 the basis for a world security
organization will be established,
Murray said. adding: “After that
it will be up to Congress par-
ticularly to the Senate. to ratify
the San Francisco decisions and
it will be up to the American

people to insist that they do so-

In a separate appeal to CIO
officials, Murray urged that the
campaign include widespread
publicity in union papers, dis-
eussions in local union meetings.
the appointment of special study
groups to report to the member-
ships, and joint community meet-

ings with other labor organiza-|"

tions and church, civie fraternal,
professional, farm, business and
women’s organizations. He fur-
ther recommended that letters

and wires be sent to Congress- i
immediately urging ‘their |:
support for the Bretton Woods :

men

proposals now before them.

Allowance
Benefits
Children

Beginning July 20 this year
the economic burden of rais-
ing children in Canada will be
somewhat eased when family.
allowance cheques start reach-
ing homes in all parts of the
Dominion. According: to an-
nouncement by Health Minister
Brooke Claxton 1,300,000 fam-
ilies will benefit from the legis-
lation.

By the time P.A. is in your
hands Family Allowance Regis-
tration forms will have reached
every family in Canada. . The
answers to the seven questions
on the forms are aimed at giving
the government the necessary
information for final action on
sending the allowance to those
who are entitled to it.

Economically speaking, the Act
will put an additional 200 million
dollars into the hands of Ganad-
jans and thereby increase the
spending power of the people by
that much. It is expected that
this amount will be put into cir-
culation for consumers goods
(food, clothing and so forth)
every year. The scheme is there-
fore a means of increasing the
market for goods and one of the
economic steps which will help
keep production at a level where
there are enough jobs for all who
need them.

Socially speaking, the allow-
ances are expected to provide the
majority of Canadian children
with more of the necessities of
proper physical and mental
growth. The fact that too many
Canadian families still cannot af-
ford these necessities and that,
under present conditions, wage
earners with large families are
penalized thereby makes the al-
lowances a means of assisting
the country’s children to a heal-
thier life. This is underlined by
the fact that about 19 percent of
Canada’s wage earners support
about 80 per cent of the children.

Politically speaking, the al-
lowances can assist in cementing
national unity in Canada. This
is the conclusion reached by pro-
gressive leaders in public life
who see in them a recognition of
the status of all children as Ca-
nadians who are thereby entitled
to certain economic advantages
without regard to racial origin,
what province they live in or the
religious or political creed of
their parents.

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: Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas :

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ttee Will
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WASHINGTON — Presi-.
dent Roosevelt directed the
advisory board of the Office
of War Mobilization to
vestigate the question of es-
tablishing a guaranteed an-

nual wage for U.S. workers,
long a goal of the labor move-
ment. The President pointed out
that the move was in line with

a recommendation made last De-
cember by the War Labor Board
and “is closely connected with
the problems of reconversion and
the transition from a war econ-
omy to a peace economy.”

The WLB report urged that
the whole question of guaranteed
wage plans and the possibility
of their future development in
American industries as an aid
in the stabilization of employ-
ment and the regularization of
production, should now be com-
prehensively studied on a na-
tional scale.” _ It declared that a
guaranteed wage “is one of the
main aspirations of American
workers” and that “the search
for it is part of the search for
continuity of employment which
is perhaps the most vital eco-
nome and social objective of our
times.”

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The WLB recommendation was
a dizect result of its decision last
November to reject demands of
the United Steelworkers (CIO)
that 86 steel companies guaran-

age

tee “each employee a mini)
weekly wage during the lif
the contract” on the grounds

it did not have sufficient info.
operations
assured wage plans. In pr

tion about the

ing that the President appol
study - commission,

tee demands.

PLANS IN EXISTENCE
. Estimating that there

only some 50 or 60 guarar
annual wage plans im existen

U.S. industry, the Board ob:
ed that most of these plans
initiated by employers ¢
selves and that some were
and abandoned. No such plan
attempted in the steel indu
where the demand for labor
fluctuated widely from yes
year,” it added. 5
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Eers would conduct the su
Philip Murray, president of
CIO and of the (
Erie Johnston, president ot
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
bert Goss, master of the Nat
Grange; and Anna Rosen
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