| Show NEWS ball lan I 1 BY PAUL released by western newspaper union LABOR legislation FORCED BY STRIKES washington A fair air trade practices bill for labor Is s supposed to lie around congress until the coming expected wave of 0 union strikes generates an irresistible demand for its adoption then it or something like it is passed this indeed is the sotto voce program such delay may sound me like a back end way to handle an expected na lional crisis be cause the bill proposes to avert the strikes by providing 1 machinery ah chinery for or just settlements not only in the public interest but in the long range interest i of 0 the unions yet you can see what is beginning to happen donald to the legislation in chberg Rl the probable ab sence ot of Alaba mas senator lister hill from the list ot of sponsors this was supposed to be a four senator bill introduced by two democrats and two republicans in tact fact the same ones who sponsored the declaration ol of senatorial peace principles ball burton hatch and hill but on this bill hill says he was just too busy to fill out the leadership so it became most people think the real reason is that the CIO was instrumental in hills hill s recent reelection re election the too busy treatment nt Is likely to be applied generally to the proposal because nothing in its announced purposes can very well be openly opposed by the unions or anyone basically the bill would require the arbitrary unions to mod moderate e rate their public be damned M ned policy disruptions of public service such as in the fifth avenue bus slowdown in new york recently where the drivers just decided to runn run an hour or so late as well as strikes in public utilities milk deliveries etc would be prevented by judi judicial caal compulsory arbitration this is in the sound interest of the unions because all now are suffering from the conspicuous public be damned policy of a few unions the bill was not written by ma manu nu facture rs or employers but b by Y an old union lawyer donald who composed the most successful labor law aw ever enacted the rail labor way labor act under it the rail way brotherhoods brothe have prospered prospered better than other labor un unions I 1 dr and without strikes the senatorial sponsors are not anti labor people either but somewhat left leaning the way they described their general purposes Is this ONE B BOARD 0 ARD PLAN they would break up the competitive handling 0 of f labor through varl vari ous government agencies now and put all conciliation and mediation activities in a new five man board A second board of 0 three would handle complaints of unfair tices by labor or employer not jus labor alone as now the wagner act would be further amended to make unions democratic and to limit the closed shop to places where the union controls at least 15 75 per cent of the workers and is open to all members and thus is not in n itself a closed shop handing employment I 1 ment down from generation t to generation in its own ranks or other otherwise mise igniting workers s kers rights further logical limitations would cut down the number of captious s strikes now expanding in the coun try labor could stop all the national opposition arising against it in many states where laws or constitutional c hanges changes are being advocated or enacted to protect public interest against the unions it if they would take the mild and reasonable purposes of this bill or alter them to suit the situation if they would say the word to senators like hill the bill would go through in a minute unfortunately too many labox labor leaders now are shorts shortsighted eted deac tion ancs aries who want to defend the stat status u s quo and prevent any reform of e existing unsatisfactory conditions so it is quite possible congress will not only wait until the strike horse runs away but the whole la bor barn burns down before taking up this key to lock the door excessive use of power always kills itself by its own excesses his tory is bulging with undeviating ex amples latest one is hitler who ft ho contrived his own defeat by carry ing his power to lengths which caused an overwhelming opposition to be aroused statesmen labor laboi leaders or other humans seem un able to realize that power lasts as long as it is wisely used those who read this column week ly on the legal power built up by the black faction of the supreme court for unions to fix prices re alize the trend of this faction |
