Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-05-17 | Page 6 | Straws in the Wind

Straws in ttia Wind WEEKEND new provided good causa for optimism In speculating upon the likely turn af event In employer -employ relatione that will resolve prevalent chaoe and bring about the rule af reason and understanding. At Washington, administration figurea disclosed dis-closed that President Roosevelt is considering legislation Imposing definite legal responsibility Upon labor aa a mean of preventing possible abuse of tha vast power granted to labor by law. With tha validation of the Wagner act, tha great-ert great-ert advance aver scored by labor In It history In tha United Slates, far-seeing labor leader will approve aurh legislation rather than oppose It It would strike only at abuse of powers conferred, con-ferred, thus moving to forestall tha only likely eventuality which might tftclt powerful optnton to work for repeal of the act Likewise at the capital, Utah's Senator Elbert D. Thomaa urged that an agreement be reached whereby privately paid deputy sheriff in Harlan Har-lan county. Kentucky, would be abolished. This would be tha second major accomplishment of tha dvtl liberties committee of which Senators La Toilette and Thomaa are members. Tha firat wsj tha obtaining of agreements from ma)or Industries to abolish tha spy system. . In New York Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan advocated enactment of law establishing establish-ing the workers' property right in his Job. This would provide a sound legal basis for weighing laeuea in labor dispute and permit employment of a common denominator in arriving at equi- I table adjustments. These development are straws In tha wind. X signs in troubled skies they are heartening In strengthening hope that soon all tha gears fen America' productive machinery will mesh.