Show A U S Census' Lists 5000 Child Brides On The Record By Dorothy Thompson i t i N&w YORK Feb 6 UP)—' The child bride Is no stranger to Amer- ica the census bureau records showed Saturday even though a “Mrs" may be -- ! There are an estimated 6000 or more child brides under the age of IS the records show Include those who are 15 and the total reaches iV "20000 And the number the records Indicate has been Increasing for the ? a new permanent Other Permanent Whn 400 to 1000 Shampoo and rinfenraTt Color IMnee ltB ZOTOS- - $10 "sssl? Cn Policy Writer Says in Discussion of Events in GMC Strike No machinery nd electricity that the DdSENDA&Lfc p“ofntmenf° Only Soft Water Used N pjresfffent has called recourse to the courts and cannot Mr Knudsen and John L Lewis to impose it on the workers to the extept of banning or stopping a sit down at 'the same table one strike wonders why it was not done before Points Out Procedure One wonders also why Mr Knudsen In this column we are not conand Mr Sloan did not act with what would seem to be normal be cerned at the moment with either havior and pick up a telephone a defense or a criticism of the the first day and ask for John Lv Wagner labor relations set but Lewis Probably they consulted merely pointing out that the prolawyer which in matters involving cedure established by (be act Was human relations is usually a mis not followed Neither ML Lewis taka At any rate if a settlement nor Mr Sloan asked for the prois reached it will come about be cedure but neither did the board cause two obstinate men have given act as it is charged to do on its in on the appeal of the president own initiative This raises the quesand not because the law which sup: tion of what is the use of labor posedly governed the situation ac- legislation good or bad if it is tually functioned What stands out ignored and secondly why did not in the case is that the Wagner Ur the act up to last WedNow must have for spring and there's none more flattering than a £PC-HANPi- inega r o-- is tine Ibunyw©rdl ait 3KK300GK3 CORSET it stretches —but BOTH ways! - Jfjorner's It'e a copy of one coating more than twice as much! 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Answer ToliUcal’ great Government figures offer no quate to fulfill the purpose for The answer to the seco'hd quesbreakdown below 15 years of age which it was avowedly designed “to therefbre they hold no indication diminish the causes of labor dis tion would appear to be political Eunice Win- putes” and to provide a procedure The government did not wish to whether take the responsibility of condonstead who married for their liquidation ing or condemning the Charlie Johns in Tennessee has sisHas Powers Board It acted only when the strike ter brides as youthful jn other parts “ courts solved that ticklish problem The labor relations board if Of the country read the act correctly had all the for it The authority given the board But there undoubtedly are number of child brides of 12 the powers necessary to intervene dras- is vast It can decide without any one union age at which Leona Elizabeth tically and at the outset In fact vote at all whether any Roshia married Stanley Backus in a course of procedure is specifically shall be recognized as sole bargaincharted The act says that “when ing agency it can decide whether Watertown N Y ever a question concerning the employes’ representation shall be is of heard Generally nothing by employer unit plant unit or any these early marriages until some representation of employes can “make amend unusual development projects them arises the board may investigate" subdivision It own rescind” rules and reguboard its or the In such investigation Into the news census Only the taker knows of all of the "baby shall provide for an appropriate lations to carry out the provisions “and of the law But apparently because brides” and he never tells who they hearing upon due notice hesare He does tell where they are may take a secret ballot of em- its authority is so great toit use it ployes or utilize any other suitable itates to use it Because however is to take a political action which Of the 4506 wives under 15 years methods to ascertain representacollective tives” (for bargaining may or may not be popular It is 1930 in 167 of age widows (including 10 of the law the president’s board responsible Section purposes) 96 and divorcees) he found 1240 in the board to take steps neither to congress nor the departa empowers the east south-centrstates of to prevent any person from engag-inment of labor Therefore its action Kentucky Mississippi and labor becomes the action of the chief unfair in (as practices Tennessee The south Atlantic defined this makes executive and law) the by — territory Delaware Maryland DisafPolitically speaking no action is of Columbia Virginia West power exclusive “It shall not be of ad possible because there' is no conmeans 11 trict other fected by any Virginia North and South Carothat has sistent labor policy to guide the lina Georgia and Florida — were justment or prevention established be or been by board either on the part of labor may next with 1053 other- or government and no sincere lalaw or code agreement Each of 17 states had more than bor policy on the part of industry 100 of the youthful brides Texas wise” atwas Perkins Consider five basic issues in this While Secretary with 393 was far ahead of Tennesto (1) The right to organize from strike spe congress get tempting see with 297 Pennsylvania Ohio her to independent trade unions (2) Shall Missouri Virginia West Virginia cial legislation empowering in£& force General Motors confer- any one union be regarded as sole North and South Carolina Georgia ence resided collective bargaining agency for all those powers already Florida Kentucky Alabama Misboard if (3) Does “sole collecrelations labor in the employes? sissippi Arkansas Oklahoma and can understand its It tive agency” mean bargaining English Louisiana completed the list says: “When it is charged that any closed shop? (4) Shall the check Birth Records Missing (ierson has engaged or is engag- off system whereby the employer Records of children born to juve- ing in such unfair labor practice collects the union dues from the shall have the members out of employes’ pay nile wives are scarce but there have bten cases where the mothers and cause to be checks be imposed and (5) The were as young as 11 years The served and containing notice legality and morality of the strike How do industry labor motherhood of a girl of a hearing before the board or and government stand toward these raised a rumpus in Colorado in 1934 a member thereof” five questions? Accused Can Answer Campaigns to legislate against child marriages occur every now Questions Answered accused can file an answer The and then Congress argues the ques- and the board can if it likes call One and two are answered in the tion at intervals But there is no in advisers It also has law of the land All workers have federal minimum marriage age and theindependent witnesses the right to organize and if a ma'to power the laws of the state follow no set and in section 12subpena the law provides jority of employes vote under pattern for one union' it person who shall wilTennessee Is only one of 13 states that “any or musFbe regarded as the represenresist prevent fully impede Which had no age limit on mar- interfere with any member of the tative of them all Government and riages with parental consent The board or any of its agencies labor are agreed on this Industry othew 12 are listed in federal bul- shall be a $5000 fine has to agree as long as it is law punished by letins as Florida Indiana New Jer- or by imprisonment for not more but says “no” to both in its heart sey Pennsylvania Rhode Island than one Over the third question there is year or both” South Carolina Vermont Kentucky That is to say: The board can complete darkness Industry would Louisiana Maryland Mississippi the interested parties in- certainly answer no it does not and Missouri A bill to set an age subpena the — complaints and decide mean the closed shop Mr Lewissole vestigate limit of 14 has passed the Tennessee the case the decision is if his union were legally the although senate not finally binding on both parties bargaining agency— would doubtThe decision must of course be less say yes and say no If some made inside the framework of the other union were The A F of L Speed Flier to Make law which establishes the right of would say yes or no as happened 10000-Mil- e Air Survey employes to organize in unions as to suit its interests Government please and states that the en- says nothing they NEW YORK1 Feb 6 Ml— Major couragement of the practice of colindustry On the fourth question A1 Williams famed speed flier lective bargaining is a policy of the says no labor says both yes and took off from Roosevelt Field L I United States The board could not no depending on what branch of Saturday for a 10000-mil- e aerial under the law deny any union the labor is saying it and government purvey of South America right to organize And it could not says nothing The trip made in his capacity as call industry On the fifth question off a strike if its decision were aviation director of the Gulf Oil not accepted by the workers It says no labor says yes and no— the corporation will take about two can therefore impose its decision A F of L has attacked the prinweeks strike even on Industry with industry’s only ciple of the more vigorously than Mr Sloan— and government sS'ys nothing Need a Policy So what? Big industry plainly needs a policy toward labor more In harmony with the law and with the twentieth century But industry cannot make a policy acceptable to labor as long as “labor” is a word to cover at least three policies— that of the C I O of the A F of L- - and of the worker resistant to any affiliation And that there is resistance among workers which does not emanate entirely from employer And why shouldn’t It? Closed and in plain view In pressure is the testimony of every your home yet cannot be detected as a sewing unit A modem cabinet accented with a touch of chrome honest man wfrq has ever tried to in organize labor and is implicit the methods which the trade unions ! take The resistance is partly due to workers’ disgust with many Jirev-aleand past trade union practices Nor can industry be saddled with thb whole blame for “not coThe governoperating” as long as ment’s own attitude on basic issues is one big question mark And to get back to the' original adtheme: A labor law can only beconministered In the frame of a sistent policy Otherwise it falls into V disuse authority is not summoned and industry chaos continues past -4 40 A New" Season— J New Hat! requires a New Permanent You Labor Law Can Only Be Enforced in the Frame of Consistent Girls ol ir “Plentiful on Wedlock Records South Leads Nation i -- S Vanta Abdominal Bands ’ knitted material goes twice around the body ti$s at sides holdSoft ing navel securely pins— ho sewing 3 -- In plade for $1 — each 35c No i m ON )iKK3GK3GGG) ‘ |