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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, AUGUST TIIE LABOR RELATIONS ACT LABOR ON ITS (Continued from page 1) employees must be the selector of sider the g charge that the their representatives. act is unfair and in When he refused even to sit that it imposes obligations upon down at a table with the repre- employers alone. sentatives of at least a large numxniiuintiiaiie statutes , regulate ber of his employees and a board the conuuct of particular auo&ca appointed by the President of the ox me population anu are not United States in the public interon lime account. nur i est, he displayed a temper of ab- me national iMUor xteiations aci solutism which no important labor to oe rcgarucu as uic omy law govleader displayed or would dare to erning me oenavior ox employe display. When he refused to sign unions, unu workers. me omy a contract even though its terms vaiiu test of a i statute single were not in dispute, he took a wuetner tne restrictions wmen it position irreconcilable with the are m tnemseives justirieu common course of business prac- imposes aim wnetner, wnen aaueu to tne tice, and out of line with the en- sum total oi social controls, me lightened action of the Nations particular law promotes or retards largest steel company in obeying an equiuibie leiationsnip among the law in all its implications. tne respective forces ox modern Anyone who studies the back- economic society. ground of the Republic controversy liaiunced Equation discovers an uninterrupted chain Reierence to the fact indicates of opposition to the principles of that tne ruationai .Laoor Xteiations the National Labor Relations Act, net an unoaianceu not does create beginning in congress when the tne in reiationsnip act was up for review, and now, equation and worker. Ceremployer despite congress and the supreme tne tainly employer has tne ngnt court, continuing in all its original to ourgain couecuvely vnrougn tne obstinacy. form and througn natiocorpoiate Is Dead n-wide traoe associations. CerOur observation of the industrial tainly in dealing witn laoor and in scene in America today, convinces an other business ailairs he nas us beyond a reasonable doubt that tne privilege ox selecting his own the path pursued by the employers spokesmen oy majority rule. ro in that controversy is not the path working group has ever cnanengeu to industrial peace. Moreover, tne employer a ngnt to use tne every industrialist whose judgprocedure in ment is not betrayed by a nostal- dealing witn his employees, his gia for a day that is irretrievable competitors, or the general public, knows that is a pol- xne simple truth is that the coras dead as today icy slavery was relative rights which laoor is acin 1861. The sooner the few corded unuer the act have all along give way to their more oeen enjoyed by industry. enlightened brethren the sooner we The failure to note that the shall see an end to the civic strife privileges which labor now seeks issue of are upon the irrepressible merely tantamount to those economic emancipation. which industry has long possessed What we have said does not im- is responsible for the charge that ply that labor has lived up fully to the .National Labor Relations Act the responsibilities which the body is administered unfairly in that of our law and public opinion place employees and not employers are upon it. The exercise of collective allowed to petition formally lor an bargaining involves necessarily the election to determine workers repexercise of collective discipline. resentatives for purposes of collecWorkers should know that the tive bargaining. No one has ever most serious danger with which suggested that employees should their newly won rights are beset intervene in any way in the process may be of their own making. by which their employer selects Should they demonstrate a lack of his own agents and spokesmen; capacity to exercise these rights, and it is a basic concept of justice they will find themselves running that they should be accorded an the gantlet of unfavorable public equally exclusive jurisdiction over opinion and public opinion is the the nomination of their represenfinal arbiter in a democracy. tatives. The right to organize without Not Difficult interference by the employer, and No employer who genuinely dethe right of the majority to barsires an election, and who has no gain collectively for all, are now reasons for wanting disingenuous protected by law. When either one, encounters any practical difis can vindicated be right denied, it in placing his ;ase before ficulty by recourse to law. Resort to vio- the Labor Relations National lence or to violation of the employBoard. None has been arbitrarily uners property rights, always be heard in this to denied chance a can no lawful, longer be justified, connection. Nor has labor any even by the most zealous of labors under the act to demand advocates, as grounded in neces- authority or prevent any election. The Board, sity. and the Board alone, has the power Labors Hazard to decide whether an election is in Labor cannot have its cake and the public interest. The rules and eat it, too. If it wants the help regulations which the Board has of the law, it must be sure to take laid down for its procedure under primary recourse to the instru- this power, such as the rule forbidmentalities of the law. There is an employer formally to petino way for any statute to force ding tion for or be a party in interest such tactics without running the to the choice of workers represenrisk of keeping a minority group tatives, are consistent with a long in compulsory servitude. But pub- line of Federal experience and with lic opinion is stronger than law. the dictates of even-handfairLabor faces no greater hazard than ness toward both sides. that of cutting on its line of comUnder the pretense of making munication between its advance National Labor Relations Act the guard and the force of public supthere are those who inadfair port, for that way lies new reor otherwise would devertently strictive legislation, or regression the fair gains which the from the progressive legislation al- stroy all so worker has painfully won in his ready enacted. of bargaining for equality The adequate functioning of the fight well-knoThe power. proposal National Labor Relations Act. like Senator embodied in Vandenbergs priof that any other law, depends amendments, that coercion or inmarily upon its acceptance by the terference source from any public as a wise and fair measure. on con4) page (Continued It is, therefore, pertinent to far-flun- one-side- d, cuii-uemu- cu uo-twe- Anti-Unionis- m anti-unionis- m irrec-oncilabl- es ed Back-t- o -- FORWARD MARCH (Continued from Page 2) where no contracts exist as yet, shows that out of a total of 58,000 employes listed by the manufacturers directory in 136 mills in which the textile drive is concentrating, more than 42,000 are signed up with the union. Of 36,000 cotton mill workers in Southern mills, 27,000 are in the C. I. O. textile committee. Hosiery workers in the same region who are signed up, number 4418 out of a total of 6265. Other branches of the industry in the South show the same high percentage of signatures and indicate that the basis has been laid for rapid completion of negotia- tions. ' In four woolen mills in Philadelphia where the T. W. O. C. is organizing, out of 081 employes the union has 639 cards. In New England, the drive has netted a good percentage of cards in the Norwich, Conn., plant of American Woolen Co., American Thread Co.s Willimantic, Conn., plant, and Bay State Thread Works at Springfield, Mass. In the Buffalo mill of the du Pont Rayon Co., which has 1175 workers listed, 470 have signed the T. W. O. C. pledge card. Another report on agreements signed shows that the union has signed 21 contracts with synthetic T. W. O. C. local membership to a total of 2800. Signed contracts were received recently for seven firms, covering 7585 workers. Outstanding among these is the contract reached with the Alexander Smith & Sons Co. of Yonkers, N. Y., carpet manufacturer, employing 5500. An election held at the firm recently gave the bargaining rights to the T. W. O. C., after which the contract was negotiated. An agreement with the Werthan Bag Corp. of Nashville, Tenn., which ended an eight-wee- k strike and restored 1200 to their jobs, was also received. Other firms signed up include the Allegheny Silk Corp. of Altoona, Pa., Philip Carey Co., asbestos maker, Hamilton, Ohio; MARITIME CONVENTION VOTES TO RAISE TRUST FUND OF $200,000 NEW YORK (UNS) Atlantic and Gulf Coast seamen at the second weeks session of the National Maritime Union convention worked over the wording of the new constitution which they are preparing to adopt, endeavoring to include for in it all possible democratic procedure within the safe-guar- new union. Delegates voted to start building a trust fund of $200,000 immediately by an assessment of five dollars on the 40,000 union members, and to put aside a strike fund of 10 per cent of all income. The candidacy of Mayor F. II. LaGuardia of New York for was endorsed by the seamen on the basis that he is favorable to labor. The Mayor has refused to accept ferryboats on which strike-breakeworked during the strike of the Ct I. O. Marine and (Continued on page 4) Acme Ohio; Rayon Corp., Cleveland, Gomory, Inc., art needle work firm, New York; and Texi leather Corp., Toledo, Ohio. Local 65 of the T. W. O. C., New York City, expanded to embrace 1200 former members of an A. F. of L. federal local of Wholesale on rs of the 400 ds Employes, Shoe Warehousemen federal local, yam manufacturers employing 16 carpet and rug firms with 15,560 workers; and 34 with firms in various branches of the indus 31,-44- 9; A TJewcjpapei? nn-Pco- Ciilt UJttalln Fall-wea- - NOW Lafti? 2i? 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