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Show A Job for Congress to Do RECENT decisions of the supreme court make amendment of the Wagner labor relations law more essential than ever. The court ruled that only "final" orders of the labor relations board are subject to review by the courts. That means that the board haa practically unlimited authority over buainess and labor, without review by any higher authority. au-thority. In all preliminary rulings. That's something like saying to a motorist: You can do anything you want to while driving driv-ing along the street, without danger of being ' hauled Into court, up to the point where you actually run down a pedestrian or crash into another ear. But In the meantime, before that "final" act, if the motorist scares pedestrians half to death with his reckless driving, or li his crack-brained crack-brained motoring causes other drivers to wreck their cart in order to keep out of his way, that's all right nothing can be done to stop him. The national labor relations board has so much power today over business In connection with Its dealings with Its employes, that about all a regional director has to do la sneeze to make business men quake In their boots. If the the protection of the courts Is to be denied employers, or rival unions, during the preliminaries of a case, many a victim of board injustice will give In to unfair preliminary rulings rul-ings rather than carry on the fight to the bitter bit-ter end of a "final" order in the hope that then the courts will right the wrong. - And even though he did carry on the fight and win, the business or the organization might be so disorganized and ruined by the operation opera-tion of the board's preliminary rulings that It would have lost the war, even though It won the final battle. Fortunately for American Justice and the preservation of the rights of business to exist and employes to organize for collective bargaining bar-gaining In a union of their own choice, the supreme su-preme court Itself recognized that "thla failure fail-ure to provide for a court review" in the law may be "productive of peculiar hardships" and suggested that such "arguments be addressed to congress and not the courts." That congress will hear about It is certain. Whether It will do something about It de- pends on the insistence of business and affected labor unions. |