Biggest news of the year is labor: Paul Porter

              1942

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A WORD ABOUT THE SPEAKER
• Paul Porter is a labor journalist and a platform speaker of high repute.  His field is the study and interpretation of labor, in which he stands pre-eminent.  His qualifications include a background of practical experience as a union representative in the textile, radio, and transportation industries, and a theoretical training in economics and political science.  He has studied at first hand the labor movements of England, pre-Hitler Germany, Poland, the Soviet Union, China, and Japan.

• His platform personality is both pleasant and commanding, and he handles controversial issues with a candor and sincerity that evokes from his audiences a lively but good-humored discussion.  As a lecturer for the Public Forums sponsored by the U. S. Office of Education he was rated tops.  He has also addressed many of the other leading forums of America, and has lectured in more than 150 colleges.

• Mr. Porter was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1928, and later engaged in special studies at the Tokyo Imperial University.  He has written many magazine articles, and is the co-author of two books, Adventurous Americans and Am I Getting an Education?  At present he is editor of an unusually successful labor paper in Kenosha, Wis., The Kenosha Labor, which is read in more than 80 per cent of the homes in the city.



Biggest News of the Year Is
LABOR

Not in five decades has organized labor played so decisive a part in shaping American history as it does today.  And thoughtful citizens want to know what unions, strikes, the Wagner Act, etc., mean for their future.

What does John L. Lewis want?  Will labor go into politics with its own party?  Should unions be incorporated?

PAUL PORTER
answers these questions and interprets labor's present upsurge with authority, humor, and a wealth of vivid illustrative incidents.

As a labor journalist of wide experience in the United States, Asia and Europe, Paul Porter is admirably equipped to discuss the perplexing problems that have arisen with labor's bid for power.  Himself a former trade union officer, he is intimately familiar with the conditions of life and the psychology that underlie industrial unrest.  He knows the leaders of labor—both of the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O.—and what they want.

In simple, graphic terms he gives you a word-picture of the labor movement, its family troubles, its relation to industry, the government and Mr. John Smith.  His interpretation of labor's aims is sympathetic, but objective.

Following are suggested titles for Mr. Porter's talks:

THIS MAN LEWIS.  A brief biographical sketch of John L. Lewis, a description of the C. I. O. which he heads, and a forecast of Lewis' role as a powerful labor leader and potential candidate for President in 1940.

WHERE IS LABOR GOING?  A behind-the-scenes interpretation of present day labor activity, viewed in its historical setting, an explanation of the conflict between the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O., and a balance-sheet view of the promises and dangers in the present situation.

SHOULD UNIONS BE INCORPORATED?  An analysis of labor's relationship to government and that vast body of citizens popularly known as the public.  A discussion of the merits and faults in various proposals for regulating unions.

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