The Potters Herald

Church Union Men Doing A Good Job

Cincinnati (LPA) — Organized labor—both AFL and CIO—is intent on doing a job for all of the people at the polls in November, leading liberal churchmen and union officials were told at the annual Nat'l Religion & Labor Foundation conference here.

CIO-PAC Director Jack Kroll, one of the conference hosts, and Director Joseph Keenan of Labor's League for Political Education—AFL, both made this the keynote of their talks to Protestant, Catholic and Jewish members of the Foundation. 'Members and their families are registering and preparing to vote and they are urging other people to do the same thing,' Kroll said, 'and we think that we are being good citizens—working actively to make our democracy work.' Keenan pointed out that LLPE's legislative program contains only one strict union point—Taft-Hartley repeal, and added that 'Labor's responsibility in 1950 is to all the people of America.'

One unique feature of the conference was a session at which editors of union and religious publications exchanged views, and discussed how to channel news of mutual interest. It was suggested that facilities of Labor Press Ass'n, union-owned co-op news agency, and Religious News Service, its counterpart in that field, might be used.