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Show BENNETT SEES SEIZURE AS POLITICS NEW YORK, Special The storm of protest which met President Pres-ident Truman's steel seizure has thinned the mists of confusion and has left the Constitution and the problems of labor and management manage-ment standing in bold relief as major issues for 1952. This was the view expressed here Monday noon by Senator Wallace F. Bennett (R., Utah) before members of the American Steel Warehouse Assn. ' The forces that produced this dramatic climax had their beginnings begin-nings in many decisions made years ago," the lawmaker said. "In the 30s, Roosevelt and his political advisers sowed the wind of political favor to labor unions. f ' ' ; r - 1 . - ' . . , i ' ' '' ' '' ' ! '. i f , . .K j , y y' ; I . ' I V';"'. ! ; , '..'.( . . ... ' . V ' Siezure Politics! V. S. Sen. Walla Wal-la F. Bennett airs views. Today we are reaping the whirlwind whirl-wind in a threat to the Constitution Constitu-tion itself." He said that the Bill of Rights was threatened by administrative and executive "erosion" and his speech traced the patterns behind be-hind the steel seizure. "Because the air is clearing, we shall soon see a sharper definition defi-nition of the rights of the President, Presi-dent, the effects of the seziure on our present and future labor laws and political effects of the 1952 campaign which have grown out of the President's action," said Sen. Bennett. tt n-oitoH thnr. the Deoole through Congress would demand a restoration of the balance of power among the three branches of government. "The right of labor unions to strike has some limitations," he pointed out. "It is to the mutual advantage of labor and management manage-ment to preserve the principle of collective bargaining, but the interference in-terference of government in this procedure has weakened the good faith which must be present if collective bargaining is to prove helpful and worthwhile." Just back from a trip to the west, the Senator said that he was impressea wun me ictuuu of the nation's people and press to the steel seizure and to the President's Presi-dent's statement, produced by the seizure, that he could, if he saw fit. also seize the press and radio. He picked up a phrase current in labor publications "equality of sacrifice" and pointed out that sacrifice cannot be imposed from outside and added that we cannot find permanent solutions to these r.nd many other problems until all Americans recognize the type of sacrifice needed and offer it willingly will-ingly for the common good. |