Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-06 | Page 10 | Federal Government Takes Hand in Steel-Union Breach

Federal Government Takes Tales Hand In in Union Steel Breach WASHINGTON July 6 AP Warning AP-Warning Warning that industrial warfare warfare warfare war war- fare threatens the government stepped into the steel picture today as the struggle over unionization in the industry headed ra rapidly idly into its first crucial p phases With John I L. L Lewis spurring the drive to organize all steel steelworkers steelworkers workers into one ono big union in defiance defiance defiance de de- de- de fiance of the bitter opposition of employers the national labor relations rela relations board reopened a s fight in the courts t to force steel companies to accept a the tho n national Ional labor relations act as asa aria a means of keeping peace I The board announced it was pet peti petitioning boning the federal circuit court of app appeals al at New v Orlea Orleans s today In irr a anew new effort to enforce the act against th the tho big Jones Tones and Laughlin Steel corporation Need Illustrated The petition said the need for remedial legislation such as M this act act now being amply illustrated by threatened strife In n the steel in- in stry which will by Its nature di- di otly eUy burden burdel interstate com com- tree erce r The act among other things guarantees guarantees guarantees' guarantees guarantees' guar guar- the right of collective bargaining bargaining bar bar- gaining seeks to outlaw employer dominated unions and lists unfair practices for which employers employer could be penalized It is now no the tho subject of court battles in which its it constitutionality is being challenged and defended The labor board some time ago issued orders directing Jones and Laughlin to cease alleged d interference ence with villi Its attempts sel self organization tion and to take back 10 discharged at its Aliquippa All Ali Par Pa plant The board asked aked the court at New Orleans to enforce this order The court refused declaring ring that the thc steel laborers were engaged in manufacture not Interstate commerce commerce commerce com com- merce and that the constitution gives the federal government no power to r regulate labor relations in manufacture Points Point to Decision The court pointed to the supreme court decision which struck down the labor provisions of the Guffey coal con control trot act on the ground that they were an Invasion of states state's rights The labor board in its petition to today today today to- to day for tor a n rehearing argued that the Guffey acts act's type of or regulation is different from the employment of means to protect commerce itself provided in the tho national labor labor labor- relation rela relations tion rela act With employers reiterating their intention to maintain the open shop John L. L Lewis United Mine MineWorkers MineWorkers' MineWorkers MineWorkers' Workers Workers' l leader ader and head of or the committee for industrial organization tion fon planned to strike tho the keynote of the unionization drive at o'clock E. E S. S T. T tonight in a radio speech entitled Industrial Democracy Democracy racy In Steel