Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-06-04 | Page 2 | S. F. Employers, Unions Debate Differences, Set Peace as Goal

y S. S F. F Employers Unions Unions Debate Differences Set Peace as Goal SAN FRANCISCO June 4 AP AP Industrial Industrial and labor peace was the goal professed by both sides as employers and C CIO I 0 spokesmen debated differences s at a Town I Hall meeting 1 than last A night attendee attend atten ded d 1 than A attendee attend atten ded d More persons the unprecedented gathering am an and thousands of others listened over their radios to the ion discuss of the fundamental attitudes of the two opposing forces Harry Bridges west coast C CIO I 0 director and longshoremen's leader pledged San Francisco's C I C 0 unions to outlaw jurisdictional strikes W. W P. P Fuller Jr San Francisco paint manufacturer and acting chairman of the committee of 43 employers' employers group formed to forestall forestall forestall fore fore- stall strikes said industrial management management management man man- was willing to accept the Wagner act if it were amended in inthe inthe inthe the direction of two sidedness of honest balance The crowd cheered Bridges At times the audience booed statements of employer spokesmen despite the protest of labor representatives Both sides agreed that workers have the right to organize into unions of their own choosing that tha they have the right to bargain collectively collectively col col- col- col that lawful picketing is isI I the right of labor and that that right carries with it the duty to prevent prevent prevent pre pre- vent irresponsible picketing They agreed that violence and coercion In all forms were reprehensible reprehensible that they were willing to carry their problems to the public and that they were willing to have havethe havethe havethe the public bring pressure upon either group that violated its comI com corn I I Regarding jurisdictional disputes Bridges Bridges We We as organized laboring laboring laboring labor labor- ing people cannot too strongly condemn condemn con con- dema and denounce them Fuller Fuller Fuller- Jurisdictional disputes should be settled peacefully In such disputes the employer is power power- less Chief differences were over sympathy sympathy sympathy sym pathy strikes and the closed or union shop Fuller protested both Bridges insisted they were essential adjuncts of effective labor organ organ-