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Page 4 THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. WASHINGTON REPORT UNWISE STEP , pule. This is a most unwise step The long and festering dispute! and we will have future reason between the railroads and some; to rejK'nt it. of their employees pushed the To its credit, the Congress has country to the brink of national ff>und iabor-management disputes i crisis last week. Again, the s|)ec- distasteful It has avoided them tre of the countiy's economy wherever possible. Our system grlitdinig to a halt loomeri bt'fore depends upon the optmation of ue and the Congress rushed in to free collective bargaining and in prevent national disaster. With- most instances this keystone of out doubt, the Congress and the orir economic system works rea- courts were the last hope df pre- sonably well. There are .some ex venting the American pwple ceptions, however, which were from being victimized by an ar- rewgrii/ed a great many years gument in which they had no ago when special legislation was part. But in the legislation it passtxi to deal with work stoppa- passed, I strongly biriieve tho BPs in the Railroal.! industry. merce last week. Efforts were | the urge next March to Jump malie In the closed sessions of just as mindlessly into 'the ques- the Committee to change the res-, tian of work rules which involves olution, but we were able to thousands of detailed operational write a measure that would ac-! agreements. Whatever happens oomplish the two essential pur- ’ now, one thing is certain. The poses of such Congressional in- 'Congress has taken on a new tervention. 'First, we needed to ' responsibility. It has invited in- . .u ' assure that the railroads would ■ dustry and labor to move away crisis. All have asserted 'that opcrrite. Secondly, we ! the negotiating table and health, wolifare, and security of | provide more time I or bring their disaigii-eements to the nation dcmanii the continued | The ori-, Washington, operation d? the railroads. Every | .vvould have done: til recent years. Most 'Presidents during the last thirty years have had to face at least one railroad (Help make Nortji CaroBna bea- ^ . .1 iiill'i'l ixfsufimicfii 'wv/uiu iiavc mt_i- . President has also respected the !... nrohibitinff a strike or a AH this points, again, ito the : ^'^“ul |n ilSTil. This cannot 'be principl that labor and manage-1 ,„r theCongrei to 'get to - ^ ment should work out their dif- j March 1 ” — - | work on a new formula for solv- ferences and have avoided taking , | ing these l^ilsp'Utes. Proposals by sides In the (dispute. j During the Floor debate at the | the White House have ibeen ig- The present disagreements eleventh hour, the House agreed nored for many months. Sim- have gone on since September | to an amendment providing a j mering these specific disputes in 1969. "Cooling off’ periods have | fiw percent pay raise retroactive I Capitol Hill’s political pot may not cooled tempers on either side to January 1, 1970, and an addi- well prove so unsatisfactory that and when time ran out, thcreliional 32c per hour increase re- ' ~ Congress went too far. 'By iit.s ! In the Railway Labor Act, the 1 was no fiurther legal means to troactlve to Noven-.'ber 1, 1970. action, an already confu.scd .situ- public’s slake in uninterrupted ! prevent a strike. Therefore, for]Thus, for the first time in these atioii has been aggraval<>d an.i railroad operations was spelled ! >he fourth time since 1963. the, disputes, the Congress has placed iwe have established a precttdcnl out by empowering the Presklent i President was otolStated to ask that 'the Congress and probably to provide "cooling off periods’’ . fer emergency powers to prevent ■most Amricans will live to re- during which strikes and lock-^ collapse of rail service while gret. (We have rushed in to kw'p outs are forbidden. In theory, efforts to get the two sides to- the railroads running which was negotiating could continue anil j gethcr could continue, i^e only permissible alternative, an agreement is reached. This' The emergency resolution 'was However, the Congresis has also I law has had a stormy history, i brought before my (Committee on itself in 'the position of abbitra ting a complex dispute about which It has little knowledge or a'jthority. I opposed this action. By agi^ee- ing to it, we 'have 'plunged into dangerous territory. I have the Congress may ibe forced to face up to the problem of writing new grour.<j rules 'for these fights that will bo fair to all. acted to fix wages in a labor dis- i Ivut it has worked fairly well un-I Interstate and 'Foreign Com- doubt that Congress may 'The first USS North Carolina ^vas a frigate of the 1800,’s, the scoon.i was a World War ‘l cruis- Tio|er and the third is a battleship feel'now berthed at Wilmington. complished by garden; cii.ibs al one, or 'municipal goyemnwivts, alone, or the state gt^ernment, alone. It can be aoctm^liahed by the indlvidua) efforte :oI all the citizens. I Many times the qhai'acter of a family can be judric'd by Khe ap pearance of the home- Visitors can likewise judge a town or city by the appearance of 'the homes. A well laniiscaped industrial plant, factory, warehouse or place of business -denotes Officers and employees aa. congenial and efficient as the^r 'pleasant sur roundings. With’ ,pleasant sur- ‘rou'ndiftgk you’'Hrtd too, ®ood neighbors, substantial 'dtizeijf and community 'pride. Reial esUte dealers itkII iiM tl|iat they at let«t. 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