The
ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
HALIFAX COUNTY’S LARGEST NEWSPAPER
North Carolina’s Only TABIoid NEWSpaper
CARROLL WILSON, Owner and Editor
Entered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 1914, at the post office
at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 3rd, 1879.
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The Wagner Bill Is Un-American
Very soon the country will be upset again
over the fight in Congress on the Wagner Bill.
This week, Senator Wagner of New York,
has served notice in the press that, unless his
bill is passed, strikes and more labor trouble
may be expected throughout the country.
We pass by that statement because it is the
old story of the boy who always refuses to play
ball unless he can be the pitcher. The Senator
seems to believe the world will come to an end
unless his pet measure passes.
And furthermore, we are getting fed up on
all these doleful warnings and dire threats. The
whole country is fed up on them. Public sym
pathy is no longer with those who leave good
jobs in times like these and by so doing endang
er jobs of others not concerned. And public
sympathy has turned completely against those
who keep other folks from their jobs. Without
the sympathy and moral support of the public
no strike can succeed.
Ihe Wagner Bill would make it imperative
for the Federal government to recognize the
majority in case of a labor vote in any plant as to
whom would represent them for collective bar
gaining. The minority would have no repre
sentation at all.
This is against the principles of our Ameri
can government. While the minority does not
have the votes or power, they have a right to be
represented in proportion to their strength (or
weakness). Unless this were a cardinal prin
ciple, our Congress and our state legislatures
would be all Democratic or all Republican
This would mean the end of party politics, be
cause under such a set-up, the first party in pow
er would be in posession and position to pro
mulgate a self-perpetuating machine.
Every party needs opposition in order to
make it alert and active. Competition is the
life of trade, and likewise a party needs a cer
tain amount of opposition lest it become ruth
less, arrogant and despotic. The minorities
must not, cannjot, be ignored, under the Ameri
can form of government.
Our whole governmental set-up is a system
of checks and balances and to eliminate minor
ities is to start a growth which will soon devel
op into a national cancer. Minorities serve a
peculiar purpose of keeping the majority ever
on guard against mistakes which might turn the
tables. This makes for better government.
Therefore, in its very essence and founda
tion, the Wagner Bill is un-American.
Every person Who belongs to a minority group
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on any question should resent the Wagner Bill,
for it would set a precedent which would take
from him that inalienable right of free speech,
free conviction and thought, and freedomf to
join with any constitutional movement.
Here in North Carolina, those who are for a
change in the present method of liquor control,
those who are called Wets, those who voted for
repeal of the 18th amendment, those who
would see some form of State liquor control
such as the Hill Bill, are now in the minority
if you take the 180,000 majority against re
peal.
To follow the reasoning of the Wagner Bill
would mean that those persons who desire a
change would have no representation, no right
to make a fight, no power to make a come-back
no voice whatsoever in the future. The Drys,
temporarily in control, would be permitted to
set up such an organization that future change
would be impossible, regardless of change in
public sentiment or actual votes.
For sake of argument, we will say the Wets
are in the minority in this State. But why
should they be deprived of their American
rights to fight for what they think is right and
proper?
That is exactly what the Wagner Bill would
do in the labor question. Set ^ip a precedent
whereby the present majority would establish
an never-ending, perpetuating oligarchy.
No more un-American law could be passed.
Later we will show that the Wagner Bill is
not orijly un-American, but also that it is unfair,
illogical and unconstitutional.
And that while it might benefit a few labor
leaders, tljis same bill, enacted into law, would
cause untold harm to the cause of honestly or
ganized labor, to say nothing of that vast maj
ority group of 87 per cent of the nation’s labor
whicfy shows no desire to organize, or whose
organizations are not recognized by Senator
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