| Show BEHIND THE NEWS NEWS' Jurisdictional Strikes Have H ve Crippled Building i By BAY TUCKER A log jam am involving billions of dollars dollars' worth of home and factory construction throughout the nation will be broken I under Taft Hartley provisions outlawing outlawing outlaw- outlaw ing Jurisdictional strikes provided provided pro pro- vided the labor unions are not notable able to block the application of this weapon through co court t. t ac action ac- ac tion In view of the importance of the building ind industry try to promotion promotion promotion promo promo- tion of economic recovery employment employment em em- and nigh high purchasing power authors of the measure regard this s section as the most effective tive and Immediate contribution contri contri- button which the new statute makes to the national economy It is not riot generally realized what a eo serious bottleneck these and Congress of Industrial Industrial Industrial In In- Organizations Amen Ameri American meric c can n Federation of Labor controversies controversies contro contra have created in the con construction construction con con- and other fields Fred Ha Hartley t ey of New Jersey Jerseys chairman of lof the house labor committee e got the inspiration for a wide nation investigation into this problem after he looked into jurisdictional d difficulties and disasters in the th northern section of his own state His quiet t inquiry there convinced him that conditions were worse than thad he had imagined He discovered that worth of ot industrial construction construction construction con con- and of home building had been heen halted for months because of a labor war between the c carpenters aJ and d the h hod d earners carriers They have quarreled over ove the the simple question question question ques ques- tion of at which group should haul lumber on the job The two protagonists are bIg headstrong and belligerent men William L. L Hutcheson carpenters carpenters' carpenters carpenters' carpenters carpenters' car car- penters' penters boss and Joseph V. V the president pres pres president ident IdeaL Neither have made any attempt to settle the dispute spending most of ot their time at Washington Indianapolis and Florida despite the desire to get back on the job Hutch who once slugged it out with John L. L Lewis at an Atlantic City convention has been the central figure in most of these conflicts With new methods of construction born of ot the war gaining gaining- he headway dway he fears that his carpenters will lose their jobs Worst Vorst of all he suspects that he may lose power and prestige in the inner councils councils councils coun coun- of the labor movement So at the drop of a hat or a ahammer ahammer ahammer hammer he has called strikes In which his union members bickered bickered bickered bick bick- ered with the electricians maSons masons masons ma ma- sons mechanics mechanic plumb plumbers rs etc Mr Hartley has bas named an In- In veS igat ng subcommittee which is headed by Ralph Waldo Gwinn of New York who handled labor labor relations when he served aa as a special assistant to the War Shipping board f in hi World War I and subsequently as an aid to the late Secretary of War Newton Newton Newton New New- ton D. D Baker This group has already uncovered many tices that may call f for r ment of the tho act recently over ove President Truman Spokesmen for forber western ber her interests t testified thit tha of horn hong been held up almost g aW day because of a dispute ha C CIO do I 0 and A FL units AIM that each residence wo at least the aun- aun would otherwise have b M Mout out for tor materials t tn tra tion labor and o other r totals at least For the country at lam estimated that Jealousy or disputes may ti for the blockading of si 1 j in all kinds kind of Oft of waiting to be b done 1 The Gwinn group also covered a more f fa labor Jabor union conflict t tJ ordinary Jurisdictional jurisdictional- ments disastrous as ag th been This kind of cut cut game has hit many large tries throughout the na natt nau its Us effect has hM been severe in New England Englan C CI organized O p plank ants fabricate equipment fo for fori tories bridges ways and even homes obtain secondary con conti Cont the finished articles are hi on the j b by A F L work vice vcr verso versa Large en firms like Stone Ie y W recognize this state of war must buy both raw nia mai and the completed prod proda product a firm firm organized by t the the- union which can controls troll th the tj gang This kind of cold deli deij boycott is driving n nt nua small and large compan companies wall according to evi evid the hands of at congressional i f fA A nugget of ot human dug up by the Hartley Hartle- Gwinn investigators that these work 0 fomented by labor high like Mess Hutcheso f Mores chi rather than b by l' l workingmen themselves dentally the wives of men of off their jobs by a a. a r gates gate's abrupt orders areto are areto rep to be especially resentful When the Hutcheson or representatives visit a I and ask If there are an any nY union disputes the men men them that everything U Ii and that there is no CUM strike even though th the themay themay may be unsolved Ap the individuals with f ft feed and rent to pay do doto doto to be forc forced d off th the e simply for the agg of the international of W Washington Washinton s and arid India Indi |
