Show Court Without Law Senator Ferguson R. R Mich l has proposed a labor disputes court But what hat good is a court without law Our present labor crisis clearly points to the need of putting first things first As one one informed student of labor relations remarked You can establish establish establish lish a but it means nothing unless you have an agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment on principle The law agreement on principle is what any court must base its opinions and decision upon Under the present group of so-called so labor laws such agreement does not and cannot exist No system of justice can avoid the taint of travesty so long longas as unions are swathed in immunities with their books unavailable their leaders irresponsible and their funds untouchable Monopoly of is forbidden under rigorous r penal penal- I ties Yet the Clayton act the antitrust law exempts labor organizations organizations organizations from its provisions And so the monopoly of mens men's toil is permitted to exist Today wesee we Isee see the man boss-man of a closed shop industry bearing the Norris-LaGuardia Norris act like a sacred talisman into a federal court in defense of his right to tear up and fling into the face of ofa a United States district court judge a contract made between himself himself himself him him- self and his government Let us put first things first Let us bring these dictators down to the size of human beings under the same system of law I upon which every other business and industry and citizen have found agreement on principal Until such time as there is a just and adequate law upon which to base its decisions the establishment of any labor dispute court will be just so much window dressing For Release o U Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of a man you are for it shows me what your ideal of manh manhood od is and what kind of a man you long to be Carlyle I Farm output per acre has increased a fifth in the last ten years and output per worker more lnore than a third Simple arithmetic The less the average person does to earn earna a dollar the less in direct ratio the dollar is worth Release |