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Show busy and proposes a constructive plan for getting racketeers out of the union business, it's news. Every once in a while Mr. Johnny John-ny Q. Public does something that has Mr. Average Congressman, with his ear glued to the coming election, completely confused. You will recall the amazement when Mr. Public said he wanted to be axed and taxed plenty to pay for defense. Mr. Public was apparently pretty well informed on the dangers dan-gers of growing deficits, staggering stagger-ing debt carrying charges and inflation. in-flation. Now Mr. Public, as reported by the American Institute of Public Opinion poll, is willing to have his wage or salary frozen at the present pres-ent level if the cost of living can be prevented from climbing any higher. Sixty-two per cent of the wage and salary earners said they'd be agreeable to such a move. Asked if they considered they were now being paid a fair wage or salary, some sixty-four per cent said they were. Yet Mr. Average Congressman still can't (Q)aikincjfoti by JameS Preston You can expect to be reading and hearing in the months to come about something that is called the "Boren-Disney Bill." Eoren and Disney stand for Congressmen Lyle H. Boren and Wesley E. Disney Dis-ney of Oklahoma. Their bill actually ac-tually was born in Buffalo, New York, at the annual convention of Railroad Yardmasters of North America, Inc. This railroad labor union was worried about the effects ef-fects of the rash of strikes in defense de-fense industries on the future of unionism. It drafted and unanimously unani-mously adopted a resolution aimed at improving the caliber of union leadership and at freeing the labor movement from unscrupulous individuals in-dividuals who have reaped richly under the protection offered by the Wagner act. believe it. So congress is still looking look-ing for the magician's formula that permits prices to be frozen while labor costs continue to rise. The "planned economy" boys are hard at work again. For some months they've been digging around in the reports the professors profes-sors prepared for the monopoly (T.N.E.C.) committee, building up outlines for government-controlled cartels to cover all basic American industries. These railroad workers said that they believed the union labor movement to be "a permanent foundation to the workers' rights," and they felt, "as unionists, we must not allow this foundation to be weakened by a minority group who would destroy it to gain their mercenary ends." They designed their resolution, not to destroy any of labor's prerogatives under the Wagner act, but to protect these rights by providing an added measure of responsibility. Here are the six objectives of the union's resolution, as incorporated incorpor-ated in the Boren-Disney bill: 1. Aliens are prohibited from holding any labor union office. 2. Union leaders must have had three years of experience in the trade represented by the union. j 3. All officials of the union handling funds of the organization must be bonded. 4. A financial statement must be issued to each member at least j once a year. 5. Stoppages of work because of jurisdictional disputes is forbidden, and jurisdiction ascertained by certified proof of representation. 6. A sixty-day "cooling off" arbitration ar-bitration period is provided, with settlements to be retroactive. : The actual bill isn't much more 1 complicated than that. Maybe i that's another reason it's attract ing more than a few cursory con- gressional glances. But the riiain, ! reason is this: when a union gets They have quietly formulated plans calling for cartelization of industries like automobiles and auto parts, iron and steel, transportation trans-portation equipment, hardware, building and construction materials, mater-ials, foodstuffs, textiles, beverages, tobacco, and many others. The plan provides for the government controlling con-trolling and supervising each cartel car-tel consisting of the private concerns con-cerns within each of these major industries. As a corollary of the scheme, the New Dealers would establish "yardsticks" for each industry in-dustry a system of industrial TVA's. The springboard for the plan is the argument that regardless of when the war ends and regardless of who wins, the cartel system under government control will be essential to the operation of any successful trade relations with the foreign nations. Without any public pub-lic pronouncement on the work, the planners have completed the overall studies for the control of more than fifteen industries. |