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Show t f THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM, UTAH ALWAYS THE BES1 He When I buy liquor, I get the best of it, always. She Except when It gets the best of you. Bruckart's Washington Digest Report on Labor Relations Act Is of Vital National Importance Special Congressional Committee Recommends Reor-canizati- on of Board and Amendment Of 'Wagner Law.' By WILLIAM BRUCKART VVNU Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. The house of representatives has in its collective hands one of the most and vital documents that has been presented to it In many years. I re-fer to the partial report of the in-vestigation into the National Labor Relations act and its creature, the National Labor Relations board. The report is vital because it exposes some of the most damning evidence that has come to light since the famed senate investigation into the oil scandals and proposes means for correcting the conditions which the committee of inquiry found to be wrong. The special committee, headed by Rep. Howard Smith, Virginia Demo-crat, has spent months delving into the labor board record, analyzing cases, obtaining the "other side" of board rulings, reports of coercion, intimidation, labor union racketeer-ing and such. It has done so with the minimum flare for sensational news publicity, and it recognizes, more-over, that it has just scratched the surface. The inquiry will continue, and there is very little doubt but that the New Deal attempt to put labor in a straightjacket under dom-ination of the C. I. O. is at long last eoinp-- to he fullv of record for the gress does not prescribe some medi-cine to cure the illness. The minority of the committee, two New Dealers-Representative- s Murdock of Utah and Healey of Massachusetts were highly angered by the majority recommendations made by Chairman Smith and Rep-resentatives Halleck of Indiana and Routzahn of Ohio. The three-ma- n majority was accused of seeking to "emasculate" the law and destroy the board. With respect to the pres-ent board, I gather that the charge against the board is true, for there are thousands of people would be happier if Chairman J. Warren Mad-den and Edwin S. Smith were out of those jobs. Complaints seldom have , come concerning Dr. William M. Lei-serso-but the others have been targets. So, perhaps, the minority charge is correct in that one in-stance. Committee Recommended Abolition of Present Board The committee majority recom-mended abolition of the present board and the establishment of a structure which would make certain that violators of the law would be prosecuted without direction from the body that was to sit as judge. It did not place any inhibitions against reappointment of the present membership to the new judicial posts. I suspect the committee thought such measures were not necessary. There are many who doubt that either Mr. Madden or Mr. Smith could be confirmed by the senate again since the house committee disclosures of some of their unusual activities. One of the other outstanding rec-ommendations by the committee concerned freedom of speech. As the law now stands, it is nothing short of an abridgment of that free-dom of speech of which our na-tion always has been so proud. The law prohibits an employer from talking or giving advice in any way to any of his employees wherever the question of union organization is concerned. And there, in my opinion, you have censorship, a cen-sorship just as flagrant, just as and just as complete as is exercised by the bloody-hande- d Sta-lin over the press of free Russia! It is one of the steps that leads to other and more dangerous acts by government that leads eventually to the point where citi- - voters. The committee majority vigorous-ly assailed the labor board and the law under which the board acts for setting up an agency that serves as judge, prosecution and jury. Sepa-ration of these functions was recom-mended and amendments to the law were offered for the consideration of congress. Government Housecleantng Should Be Undertaken That course is fine. But it affects only the National Labor Relations board. True, the committee has no jurisdiction over any other questions than those connected with the act and the board. But the point that I seek to make is that the govern-ment woods are full of such setups as the National Labor Relations board, and they are dangerous to the future of America. I hope that the congress will see fit to do some-thing about the odd mixture of jus-tice and personal government that is represented by the National La- - zens are just numbers of men and women who make good peons or equally good cannon fodder if needed. The committee voted for elimina-tion of the board's division of re-search. Here is another cancerous sore. No one knows why the division is in existence, unless it be for pur-poses of subversive activity. The chief of the division is one David Saposs. The Saposs books and other writ-ings have been quite vigorously crit-icized at various times. His favorite subjects are labor and political movements, and he always treats them from the extreme left-win- g radical view. Mr. Saposs contends that his writings are "objective." But apparently the committee saw no need for the division of research in such an agency. It's a Little Embarrassing For Congressional Members And so a congress, especially a house of representatives, has some-thing in the nature of an unwanted baby in its lap. You see, there are 435 members of the house of repre-sentatives who soon are to confront their constituencies, again. Just a plain campaign. And among these are many who are really suffering. They do not know whether the factional split between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Or-ganizations has left sufficient strength on either side of the divid-ing line to permit a bold position. I believe the chances are that con-gress will take no action on the re-- ' port at this session. There are two reasons for this conclusion. the First, committee is continuing its in-vestigation and, second, there are a great many members who want to use the Roosevelt administrations labor policies as campaign issues. If the weaknesses are corrected be- fore the dog days begin on the hust.ngs. that issue is gone. But strangely, the New Dealers are struggling to keep any- thing from happening to the Nation- al Labor Relations act. This looks to be stupid politics. Whether anything is done at this sess.on really is of no serious e. The C. I. 0. and John L. Lewis no longer boss S,HangCSal"eCertainla. I may come regardless of the position of the C T - n- because wiiijam Green anH the American w!?her,H Z0t Labor is 811 f deal they have re-- ce.vcd the Wagner act and he present board. Furthermore of labor who can foresee Wagner act type of poliCy will dam! age labor's caUse in the long run SENATOR WAGNER bor Relations act (which is some-times called the Wagner act, after its father. Senator Wagner of New York) and the National Labor Re-lations board, but I hope the at-tempted cure will not stop there. There can, and ought to, be a thor-ough job of housecleaning, because no government is going to remain really the servant of the people where such agencies operate with the law in its own hands. There are few political appointees within the realm of my knowledge who could be so completely unbiased as to administer their jobs without fa-voritism. The National Labor Relations board, as at present constituted, was recommended for a good firing, in the committee's report. It did this on the basis of facts that showed a strange cocktail of judicial action, conferences with board attorneys who handle prosecutions, biased statements and actions and peculiar conditions of investigation by board agents. It arrived at the only con-clusion possible, namely, that the present structure for dealing with labr disputes must be likened to stomach ulcers. They continually eat away at the lining of the stom-ach. The board's policies strike me as likely to eat away the digestive system of American liberty if con- - VITAL XLRB REPORT Findings made by a special house committee on the National Labor Relations act are of great importance to the nation, accord-ing to this article by William Bruckart. He feels that adjust- ments in the present labor board set-u- p are necessary and vital to the orderly progress of the labor movement. Such changes catch the members of congress at a bad time because 1940 is an clec-tio- n year. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaUlNE Balkans Draw Russ Attention Following Conquest in Finland; Allies Retreat From Near East (EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper iimnn Congress: What Both Houses Are Doing In house and innate, V. S. legislators limed themselves during mid-Marc-with the following subjects: PAN AMERICA: Blues Song Ever since Europe went to war last autumn, U. S. business men have hoped to capture the profitable South American trade which here-tofore belonged mostly to Germany and Britain. Loans and credits were arranged, American solidarity was preached and good neighborli-nes- s became the order of the day. More realistic, the U. S. department of commerce sent its experts to dig out the facts. Six months later the experts reached a conclusion: "Until . . . definite action is taken on the de-faulted obligations of South Ameri-can countries, until . . . the U. S. investing public will have confidence in South American political condi-tions . . . and until . . . the fear of expropriation and nationalistic legislation is overcome, a large in-crease in our exports to and im-ports from South America cannot be expected ..." Major difficulty was that South American imports from the U. S. far outweigh U. S. imports from the south, a situation which is rob-bing the little countries of theis gold POLITICS. Debate and a threat-ened filibuster delayed a senate vote on amendments to the Hatch "clean politics" act. Aim: To prohibit state employees, who are paid in whole or in part with U. S. funds, rom engaging in political activity. No. 1 opponent was Sen. Sherman Minton (D., Ind.). Passed was one amendment limiting political con-tributions to $5,000. CENSUS. Okayed 9 to 7 by the senate commerce committee was a Neb.) complained about FBI'3 "dis-graceful and indefensible third term degree methods" In arresting charged with recruiting sol-diers for the Spanish loyalist army. DEFENSE. Passed by the house was a measure authorizing $054,-000,0- in the next two years for 21 warships, 22 auxiliary vessels and 1,011 fighting planes. Meanwhile, the senate weighed n resolution to probe U. S. plane sales abroad. AGRKTLTLRE. Certain to pass resolution 10 strike personal Income questions from the 1940 census. Secre-tary of Commerce Harry Hopkins ruled that income ques-tions may be an-swered in sealed, unsigned letters. CIVIL LIBER-TIES. J. Edgar Hoover's &3 and silver. AGRICULTURE: Weather and Crops In Texas, farmers were planting cotton. Up in the Dakotas they were limbering up for spring seed-ing. At Washington, the U. S. weather bureau decided the time was ripe for report and forecast. Points: ft Because soil moisture stands at low ebh, spring wheat producing states wl' yield under-norm- sup-plies this (r unless heavy rains or snows hl within the next few weeks. ft Drouth a'to plagues the winter wheat belt from Nebraska south into Texas nnrf from Colorado past the senate and very likely to pass the house were boosts which brought the farm appropriation to more than one billion dollars. Ma-jor boosts: $212,000,000 for parity payments. But there were growing fears that next year's congress will be left to worry about where th money is coming from. Meanwhile, its economy program shattered, congress heard Franklin Roosevelt suggest once more that new taxes may be needed. LABOR. Of 17 amendments to the Wagner act suggested by a special house committee, at least one seemed destined to pass: Enlarge-ment of the labor board from three to five members. were accused in the GEO.NORRIS senate com m ere e -- committee di fuLm of using wire-tappin- g and voice recorders to snoop into people's affairs. Mean-while Sen. George Norris (Ind., into the Ohio vaMey. Although some sections had heavy midwinter pre-cipitation, poor moisture conditions during the autumn germination months will cut even deeper into already small plantings. C. Below-norm- precipitation was also recorded along the Atlantic sea-board, but it was too early to base crop forecasts on it. ft Out west, where northern Califor-nia was just draining off flood wa-ters, the bureau reported unusually heavy precipitation during the winter. CHINA: Thin Ice Primary topic of Far Eastern in-terest right now is the Russo-Finnis- h peace (See EUROPE), which may turn the Soviet be-hemoth's attention eastward once more. None could tell whether the Reds would reopen their dormant war against Japan in Outer Mon-golia, meanwhile aiding Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-she- or whether they would work alone. Either development seemed pos-sible, an uncertainty which made inconsequential the manifesto is-sued at Shanghai by Japanese Pup-pet Wang Ching-wei- . Said he: A new government will be established in China almost im-mediately. Although he regretted that "now is not the time" to reveal his plans for readjusted Sino-Ja- p relations, , Puppet Wang appealed for a renunciation of Oeneral fjVl THIS AREAjy Jf s. r ? tNW WGHIIO BUILD RAl ( ST vSHs KOAD ACROSS FIN. S 30 YEAR LEASE ON HANGO sSIWlMiK Cut; ) Fiwl'-'fC- y LENINGRAD WHAT RUSSIA GETS "Finland stood alone . . Scandinavia, where Russo-Germa- n pressure had helped bring peace, the allies had lost considerable prestige. In the Balkans and Near East, where combined Russo-Germa- n pressure has been kept to a mini-mum because of the Finnish war, there sprang up overnight signs that the dictator nations had reached a working agreement. Italy, long fearful of Russian aggression in the EUROPE: Peace in the North 'Finland stood alone against a huge opponent. Wt could not win the war alone. The inevitable end would have been the destruction of our country." Thus spoke Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner as a peace delegation winged its way homeward from Moscow. The war was over and Finland would "soon regain her vitality." Field Marshal Baron Karl Gustav Mannerheim figured Finland had lost 15,000 men to Rus-sia's 200,000, which was proof enough that the vanquished army was far superior, man for man. But the war had left Finland a shambles, its best men dead, some of its best land lost to the invader (see map.) Ahead lay a tough job, but the kind to which generations of Finns have become inured. Gradually the true story leaked out. First peace overtures had pwsiiBgpwwHwwf come from J"V Finland two M weeks ear- - 'Mi : ' ' W 1Ut' vla V Sweden. i - ! Major factor ! I: Scandinavi- - ' . f andefen- - 4 i sive alliance - AiV which Fin-- ' 'Sclf ' land agreed 1 H n I to sign with VAINO TANNER S weden and Tough job ahead. N 0 r4UW 8 y once war Chiang. At Tokyo, Premier Mitsumasa Yonai issued an abstract and g statement promising Jap-anese support of the Wang govern-ment. But abstractions from Tokyo and Shanghai only emphasized Japan's helplessness. Since Premier Yonai was vague, and since Puppet Wang could tell China nothing about his new government's plans, it was a safe guess that the entire peace structure was skating on thin ice. POLITICS: Third Term in England Most Britishers are keenly inter-ested in a third term for Franklin Roosevelt, for they feel his foreign policy works in their favor. In mid-Marc- h readers of the London Daily Mail smacked their lips over a story by the diplomatic correspondent, Wilson Broadbtnt. Said he: "It is now established beyond any doubt that the report of (Undersec-retary of State Sumner Welles) on his tour of European capitals will directly affect Mr. Roosevelt's deci-sion regarding a third term . . . Balkans, was reported negotiating a trade pact with Moscow under Nazi auspices. Meanwhile, Ger-many also worked on a Soviet-Rumania- n pact. These things left Turkey out on a limb; soon she will be forced to sur-render her friendship with the al-lies and play ball with the Moscow-Rome-Berl- in triangle. For Germany, the biggest imme-diate gain was a chance to beat the British blockade. With Russia at peace, the Nazis could now expect oil, munitions and foodstuffs from Joe Stalin. Reaction in the East No sooner had Russia ended one war than she started another one. At least advices reaching Shanghai reported a resumption of hostilities on the Outer Mongolian frontier, where a truce ended the fighting last September. Since then border demarcation conversations have bogged down. Though Tokyo an-grily denied new fighting, she also lodged a strong protest with Mos-cow against Russian airplane flights over Jap territory in the southern half of Sakhalin island. was over. And as the Finns busied themselves moving refugees from ceded areas, their foreign ministry made haste to weld that alliance. "Peace . . , will not again be broken," promised Vaino Tan-ner. (From Paris, Chicago Daily News Edgar Ansel Mowrer reported he knew why Finland never appealed directly for allied aid. Reason: The German minister at Helsinki informed Finland that issuance of such an appeal would bring German troops to assist the Rus-sians.) Reaction in the West That Russia's victory in Finland was a defeat for France and Brit-ain, no observer could deny. In NAMES in the news . . . GOV. LEON C. PHILLirS of Ok-lahoma called national guardsmen to block completion of the $20,000,-00- 0 Grand River PWA dam. Reason: Should no peace loophole be re-vealed . . . and the war develops into a fierce European struggle, then President Roosevelt certainly will run for a third term." Where Mr. Broadbent got his "be-yond doubt" information, Ameri-cans in London could not discover. What mystified them still more but suddenly seemed more logical was the very antithesis of this conclu-sion, namely, that President Roose-velt would be a cinch for if he succeeded in bringing peace to Europe. Other political news: C. In New Hampshire, 1940's first primary election placed a full slate of Democratic convention delegates J at the disposal of Franklin Roose- - I velt. ' Republicans, who drew the biggest vote, elected an unpledged delegation as requested by Sen. H. Styles Bridges, New Hampshire's presidential hopefuL C. At Kokomo, Ind., Eleanor Roose-velt said she didn't know anything about a third term: "After being the wife of a public official for years, you learn to accept what life gives vou." He claimed the U. S. owed Okla-homa $850,000 for land, roads and bridges to be Inundated by the res-ervoir. Result: He got a temporary injunction. JUAN TRirrE, president of airways, told a Chicago audience that PAA plans daily "lo-cal" flights from San Francisco to Hawaii, cruising 2,400 miles in nine hours. SEN. GERALD P. NYE (R.. N. D.) was divorced by his wife at Fargo, N. D. Grounds: Cruelty. LESTER P. BARLOW, explosives engineer, told a secret senate mili-tary affairs committee session about his new explosive so "devastating" that it "utterly destroys everything within miles." Minutes of the ses-sion were burned to prevent the formula from reaching alien hands. DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY asked the U. S. treasury if he would be penalized for digging up the ten $10,000 gold certificates he buried In the mountains back in 1909. (U. S. went off the gold standard in 1934). If not, he promised to try and find them. MISCELLANY: Nihlets in the Netcs C At Washington, the National Broadcasting company applied for permits to build television transmit-ting stations at Chicago, Philadel-phia and Washington. C. At Hollywood, Walt Disney Pro-ductions, progenitor of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, became a big business enterprise by filing in-tention to raise $4,000,000 new capi-tal. C At McAllen, Texas, a passenger train jammed a truck carrying 50 citrus workers, killing 25. C At Beirut, searching parties start-ed after 500 pilgrims returning from Mecca, holy city of Islam, who were reported lost on the desert. C At Washington, a survey by the department of labor showed that in 1935-3- 6 two-thir- of the nation's families were living on $69 a month, or $328 a year. 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