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Refusal to Endorse Presidential Candic

“AFL Executive Criticized by Tobi

By ANTHONY JENKINSON NEW YORK—(ALN)—Strong criticism of the API executive council for

fusal to endorse a candidate in the current presidential campaign was made by D; Tobin, a member of the executive council and president of the AFPIL’s largest uni

650,000-strong International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Writing in the current ;

the International Teamster, Tobin says that the executive has taken its non-4

position

“because it looks as if we have lost some of the fighting blood—or mig

the word courage—that we had in the past when labor was crucified.”

Replying to assertions by AFL leaders and Republican spokesmen that labor, by tak- ing sides in the election, is vio- lating the tradition set by the founders of the U.S. trade union movement, Tobin declares: “If Gompers were alive today, he would be campaigning from one end of the country to the other to re-elect Franklin D. Roose- velt.”

Of the 15 members of the AFL executive council “there are 11 who are outstanding Roosevelt men, one or two who are doubtful, and two who may be considered Republicans or Roosevelt haters,” Tobin states,

‘adding that there is “some cri-

ticism by the AFL general membership—and it is justified —because the council failed at its Chicago meeting in August to give its opinion to the mem-

bership.”

Declaring that former AFL leaders Gompers and Frank Morrison were “outstanding

Democrats” who were “never found in the middle of the road, fearful of taking a position,”

Unity of the Italian People Assures Their Future

CIO Leader Reports on Tour

NEW YORK, Oct. people of Italy are

“beyond my ability to describe,

13— (ALN) —Declaring that the poverty and suffering of the George Baldanzi,

vice-president of

the Textile Workers Union (CIO) and a member of the international trade union commission which just returned from Italy, stated here yesterday that the unity of the Italian people is the one assurance that they will rise above their devastation. Baldanzi spoke to 2000 people at a dinner in his honor sponsored by the Free Italy American

Labor Council,

chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee.

The talk of a “communist menace” in Italy, Baldanzi as- serted, is fascist propaganda circulated by “some who still hope for Mussolini’s return.”

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People like William Bullitt, he continued, get their imforma- tion from “people who three months ago were talking to the Nazis.” Italian unity, Bal- danzi said, “‘will not be broken by anyone. I only wish I were as sure for America as I am for Italy. They haye found that many of their old concepts are not so important any more.”

Tracing the isolationist re- cord of the Republican party,

which was also addressed by Sen. Claude Pepper and Sidney Hillman,

Sen. Pepper warned that a Re- publican administration would offer “not a world leadership upon a high moral plane, but world imperialism.” A vigorous demonstration of support greet-

. ed his statement that “the peo-

ple of Italy know that in all the world they have no better friend than President Franklin Delano Roosevelt” and that “we will follow our leader to a new glory for America, for Italy and for the world.?

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Tobin tells his readers to “pay. no attention to the false writers who try to confuse you that it is best for the AFL to stay non- partisan and do nothing to- wards enlightening the multi- tude of toilers of the nation as to who is, in their judgment, the friend of labor or the enemy, of labor.”

Asa practical contribution, to the campaign, Tobin instructs members of his union to form

“Roosevelt for Victory” clubs throughout the nation, the membership of which “should

contribute not only union men and their families, but all those who are friendly towards labor

and towards the pres ministration.” Besides election work in their ¢ these clubs will collect s nations from their men help finance the Dex partys national camp:

The clubs, in effect, 1 similar to the local o tions of the CLO Polit tion Committee, and Tf the same issue of hi journal, reaffirms his pledge “to cooperate 4 PAC, the CIO and eve group of citizens inter the re-election of F Roosevelt.”

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