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Show WAGNER ACT SCORED AT iKMEET SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 29 (U.R) Donald A. Callahan, slate comptroller of Idaho and a Wallace, Ida., mining man, asserted before the American Mining congress here today that "the administration admin-istration or the Wagner labor relations re-lations act has brought about a reign of terror among employers of labor in this country." "With the objectives of this law, no one who desires a more harmonious har-monious relationship in industry can possibly quarrel," Callahan said. ' However like most grandiose attempts to woiX out ideal conditions, con-ditions, there is still much to be desired in the actual operation of the law. Callahan aeclared that the difficulty dif-ficulty with "this kind of legislation legisla-tion is that its enforcing officers enter upon their duties with a i conception that the relation of1 employer and employee necessarily necessar-ily connotes conflict." "Until the law is rewritten to I provide for equal treatment of j employers and employees it will never be a means ' of bringing about its objective that of diminishing dimin-ishing the cause of labor disputes," dis-putes," the comptroller asserted Lit the afternoon business session of the mining congress. Callahan said the mining industry is in "hearty accord" with amendments that have been offered to the present pres-ent act. SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 29 UU: The American Mining Congress, in its sxith annual convention con-vention here, today heard charges that excessive and punitive taxation, tax-ation, government i nterfcrence with private enterprise, A "bad labor siutation and a questionable question-able fiscal policy" have deterred advances in mining practices. The charges were made by Lucien Eaton, Milton, Mass., mining min-ing engineer. He was the opening speakers on today's program and was followed to the speaker's platform by A. W. Fahrenwald, dean of the school of mines of the University of Idaho at Moscow, Mos-cow, who described the role of research in the "steady march of mineral technology. Fight Predicted Last nigiit, convention delegates dele-gates were told by Sen. Key Pittman, D., Ncv., that there will be a spirited fight at the next session of congress for in- I crease in the pi ice of silver to i its "natural level" of ?1.29 cents an ounce from the present 71 : cents. J Eaton said that the practices that he believed were deterring mining advances have also held back the general investment of capital in all industry. "Except in gold mining," Eaton said, "relatively few properties have been opened and equipped and new construction 'has been mostly in the line of improvements improve-ments at existing plants. As a consequence, new ideas have been put in practice slowly." Present I-aw Praised Pittman described the fight at recent session of congress that resulted in the 71 cent silver price as "purely economic" but . predicted the next fight, in which "anti silverites" will be licked again," will be mainly "monetary'' The veteran silver bloc leader and chairman of the senate foreign relations c o m m ittce praised, the present law because it takes the "price of silver away from the whims of foreign manipulators" man-ipulators" and "ends control by the bureauacracy of the United States." Pittman said he had become tired of going to see Secretary of the Treasu ry Morgenthau every time he wanted to know what was going to happen to silver for the next six months" under the old law which gave the president j power to fix the price the government gov-ernment would pay for domestic silver. He declared that claims of "wall street brain trusters" that a proftitable price on silver was not necessary for prosperity of the nation were "absurd." , |