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WASHINGTON —Is the Civil
Air Patrol going to become a war
casualty**
There are few. if any, civilian
organizations which made such a
contribution to the war effort as
CAP. Over-age pilots, flying their
own little planes, patrolled the
coast.
They towed targets for gunnery
practice. With mock air raids, they
showed many cities how real that
danger could be. Their rescue
flights to spot downed planes,
overdue ships, and to scout floods
are other disasters would fill a
volume.
In addition, the CAP cadet
corps trained thousands of under
age youngsters in the elements of
preflight education for work both
in the air and on the ground.
So important was CAP, that the
Army Air Forces took it over.
Now, on March 31, the AAF is go
ing the cut it loose again. Some
promises of help have been made,
but unless CAP can find a way of
financing its local units and main
taining its national organization,
it will disappear, or at least be
come a disintegrated group of
state organizations, strong in some
states perhaps, but virtually inac
tive in others.
A couple of weeks ago Gen. ,
Carl Spaatz, acting commanding
officer of the AAF, promised he
would do what he could to help
CAP if it become a federally char
tered non-profit membership or
ganization.
The Aii' Power League (APL>,
which is organizing rapidly
throughout the nation to promote
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poses in his costume for the role
of Julius Caesar in a forthcoming
film.
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both civil and military aviation,
has offered its help. Tentatively,
APL has suggested that CAP use
its state and local headquarters,
rent free. This would solve one of
the major CAP finance problems,
but many CAP members and offi
cials fear that this will mean ab
sorption by APL.
In mid-February a national
CAP committee will make its
recommendations for perpetuation
of the organization.
In the meantime, CAP is re
ceiving around 75 new member
ship application a day and about
75 per cent of these are veterans
of the Army and Navy Air Forces.
CAP is a kind of Red Cross of
the airways. Its oldsters fly on
missions of mercy throughout the
land. Its cadets get basic training
which equips them to become pi
lots and ground workers.
No other organization quite fills
that gap between amateur and
professional interest in aviation.
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AFI/s Loyal Miners Out On Limb
By MAX HALL
WASHINGTON— (/P) — When
i the American Federation of Labor
welcomed John L. Lewis back into
, the family last month, a group of
labor leaders in Illinois uttered a
cry of helpless rage.
These were the men of the Pro
gressive Mine Workers, an anti
Lewis union which has been affili
ated with the AFL for eight years,
j The United Mine Workers,
bossed by Lewis, claim 600,000
members. The Progressive claim
from 35,000 to 40,000 members,
mainly in Illinois. The running
JOHN L. LEWIS
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warfare between the two unions
on the coal-dusty soil of Illinois
has been one of the fiercest and
bloodiest struggles in the history
of organized labor.
In terms of that struggle, what
is the meaning of this new devel
opment—the return of the United
Mine Workers to the AFL?
First—It deals a blow to the
Progressives and is bound to give
encouragement to the UMW locals
in Illinois in their efforts to ex
pand. However, the AFL has not
taken away from the Progressives
any of the contracts they hold
with coal companies.
Second—It changes — at least
temporarily—the nature of the ri
valry. Now, for the first time
since the Progressives were found
ed in 1932 as an anti-Lewis off-,
shoot of the UMW, both unions'
are under the same roof, in the I
AFL. Up to now, their struggle!
has been a case of “dual union- j
ism”—two unions in the same
field, existing side by side with
no superior body to decide their
; quarrels. Now, technically, it be
comes a “jurisdictional dispute”
since the AFL has the power to
i step in.
Third—The new development
could lead to a period of fresh
strife in Illinois, or it could speed
a final settlement of the long war;
The outcome depends partly on
what the Progressives do next.
The Progressives have called a
convention for February 25 to de
cide their course of action.
There are several things the
Progressives could do. They could
withdraw from the AFL and carry
on the fight as an independent
union, as they did from 1932 to
1938. Or they could apply for af
filiation with the CIO.
Or they could stay in the AFL
and seek whatever protection they
could get from the AFL leader
ship. But Lewis is a tough man to
fight, and he now is a member of
the powerful AFL executive coun
cil, on which the Progressives are
not represented.
They could stay in the AFL and
carry their fight into court on the
ground that the re-affiliation of
the United Mine Workers was a
violation of the AFL constitution
and deprived the Progressives of
their rights.
This constitution says the AFL
shall not grant a charter to any
union “if the jurisdiction claimed
is a trespass on the jurisdiction of
existing affiliated unions, without
the written consent of such
unions.”
John Marchiando, president of
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the Progressives, points out that
his union certainly did not con
sent to the chartering of the
United Mine Workers last month.
He points out that the AFL,
shortly after expelling the United
Mine Workers in 1938, chartered
the Progressives and gave them
jurisdiction over the entire coal
mining industry, not just in Illi
nois. Therefore, he says, the na
tional jurisdiction claimed by
Lewis is a “trespass.”
The AFL executive council,
meeting in Miami, disregarded
Marchiando’s argument and ac
cepted Lewis. AFL leaders defend
the action of both practical and
legal grounds.
On the practical side, they say:
How can you keep out a union of
600,000 members because it treads'
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neering News.
By act of Congress, the govern
ment moved into Washington on
the first Monday in December,
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on the toes of a union of only
35,000?
They also say the Progressives’
union was chartered on the claim
that it could become a national
union, but it failed.
On the legal side, Joseph A.
Padway, AFL general counsel,
says the courts have ruled that
the AFL has the power to settle
its own questions of affiliations
and jurisdictions.
He cites a 1941 decision by the
U. S. Court of Appeals for the Dis
trict of Columbia. This decision
upheld the AFL, which had de
cided in favor of the Teamsters’
Union in a jurisdictional quarrel
with the Brewery Workers’ Union.
That case was not exactly like
the present one, but Padway takes
the position that the same legal
principles apply.
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