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Wash'ngton, D. C. — A bill to
pash portsl-to-portal pay suits
fed restrict every form of
jmj claim under the minimum
M|t laws was given overwhelm
bag approval in the House by a
vote of 346 to 56.
The legislation, avowedly in-]
fended to restrict portal-to-portal
claims, in effect opens the door to
legalized violations by employers
mi all wage and overtime pro
visions of the Wage and Hour
lav, the Walsh-Healey Law, and
the Davia-fiacon Act.
Provisions, sweeping away all
affective enforcement of the ex- j
fating minimum wage and prevail- j
fag wage laws previously enacted '
fey Congress are contained in the
Gwynne Bill which purports to
Meal solely with the portal-to
portal claims.
The Gwynne Bill sets up a one
year statute of limitations on all'
wage claims under, the Wage and
Boor Law due to the failure of
•he employer to pay an employe
mdaimum wages or overtime com
pensation required by the Con
gressional statute. This gives
wage discriminatory treatment as
the prevailing statute of limita
tions under state laws provides
tar a six to eight .year limit on
written claims and a two-year
limit in courts. Property claims
ore therefore given special ad
vantage over wage claims.
In addition, the Gwynne Bill
prohibits all Suits based on activ
ities not required to be paid for
fey contract, custom, or practice.
One aspect of this provision is to
analce it possible for the Employer
to set up his own standard as to
what constitutes custom or prac
tices
According to the Gwynne Bill,
claim* settled or compromised
may not be reopened and it is
a valid defense Tor an employer I
to showT that he relied on a cus- j
tom, administrative riding or a
«ourt judgment.
These far-reaching provisions
are made applicable, not only to
the Wage and Hour Law itself,
but also to any of the contents
of a court decision arising out of
that law. The Bill does not men
tion portal-to-portal claims as
such, but contains a long state
ment discussing the effect of all
back pay claims upon employers
and describes back pay as “wind
fall payments for activities per
formed by employes without any
expectation of reward."
The American Federation of
Labor urges all wage earners to
raise their voices against the ap
proval of the “discriminatory and
vicious" Gwynne Bill by the Sen
ate.
CONSTRUCTION JOBS SHORT
Washington, D. C.—A report
on the seasonal drop in construc
tion jobs has come from the U.
S. Labor Department, showing
some 146,000 fewer workers em
ployed in the industry in January
than in the preceding month.
Total construction employment
was estimated at 1,728,000 for
January—about 26 per cent be
low 4he 1940 peak of last August,
but more than 40 per cent above
the level of a year ago.
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HUTCHESON DECLARES |
EMPLOYERS HOLD KEY ;
TO BEnER RELATIONS'
Washington, D. C.—Legislation j
is not the answer to major prob- <
lems affecting labor and business, i
The pathway should be smoother, j
but the key rests in the hands <
of the employer. i
This is the considered judgment <
of William L. Hutcheson, Presi- '
dent of the Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners of America j
and Vice-President of the Amer- ,
lean Federation of Labor. 1
In a formal statement to the i
American Federationist, Mr. Hut- <
heson said: 1
“When the 80th Congress
opened, a great experiment came i
to an end. For 14 years the na
tion had blundered along under J
a system of planned economy, i
For 14 years edicts and direc- <
tives and bureaus and agencies
had flourished and grown and
spun an ever-tightening web of
government control around our
industrial, economic and even so
cial life. * {
“By November K, 1946, the
American people were satisfied
that a planned economy was not
the answer to their problems.
They said so at the pollsf by the
millions.
“If the new Congress received
any mandate from the people, it
was • mandate to bring to an end
the era of government domination
of human relationship*. Through
a great depression the people had
tolerated ever-increasing direction
from Washington in the interest
of the common welfare; through
a long and bitter war they had
submitted to ever-growing regi
mentation because national safety
dictated it. But now that the de
pression had passed and the war
had been won, they wanted no
more of it.
“It can be truthfully stated that
in no Reid of human endeavor has
government control been more of
a failure than in industrial rela
tions. Ironically enough, ia no
field has tlmre been a great* de
gree of government control. At
one time outing the war there
wore as many as 226 agencies
dealing with one phase or another
of labor matters. Every normal
function of labor has bean
hem—d in on all sides by a wri
ter of rules, and regulations and
Mden and edicts. Yet never In
listory have industrial relations
teen more ineffctive; never has
here been so much unrest, m'e
inderstanding and downright
haos.
“If America is to meet its des
iny, if government of the people
i to endure, the element of self*
letermination, consistent with the
trill of the majority, must be
naintained and preserved, not
>nly in labor relations but also
n all other fields of human en*
leavor where humas beings deal
irith human beings.
“Workers like strikes less than
my other one class. Theyj strike
inly when necessity compels them
o. Remove they necessity for
trikes and you automatically re
lace the strike situation to an ir
educible minimum.
“The duty of industrial states
manship today is to direct the
rust social energy of organized ]
abor—once dissipated in the strug
gle for union survival—into collab
irative productive functions. La
oor is ready and eager for such
i creative future. Obviously, the
rich contribution which organ
ised labor can bring to our econ
omy will not be achieved in an
itmosphere of distrust and hostil
ity.”
WOLL WARNS OF DANGER
(Continued From Page 1)
New Guianeans are kept in slav
ery for wealthy Australian plan
tation owners, the freedom and
welfare of the workers in Lon
don, New York, Paris, Brussels,
Sydney and Prague are in mortal
danger.”
The continuation of “any form
of slavery,” according to Mr.
Woll, “is in outright conflict with
the moral and judicial founda
tions of the verdict reached at
Nuremberg against* the Nasi war
criminals.”
He specifically pointed out that
the Allied judges had condemned
to death Frits Saackel, director
of Nasi forced labor enterprises.
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GREEN ASKS AL UNIONS TO
BACK TEACHERS’ PLEA FOR
HIGHER PAY \
(Continued From Page 1)
necessity, not preference. The
crisis ,was precipitated by\the im
pact of the inflation upon their
cost of living and the inability of
the local and state governments
to recognize their full responsk
bility towards the teachers and
towards the community. But the
ssue reaches far deeper. It is
not going tcj^-be—solved by the
correction fot inequities or cost
of-living litmuses.
"The time has come to reassess
the entlr^l role of the school
teacher in the community, to es
tablish fair\and Arm standards.
Proper standards must be set not
only for teachers’ pay but also
her work-load, and the hours she
devotes to her school duties,
both in and out of the school
building. Above all, there must
be standards for amount of leis
ure essential to the teacher for
reading, recreation and rest, the
three R’s which the average
teacher has never had a chance
to learn and without which she
cannot attain the emotional bal
ance and mental poise so crucial
to a teacher.
“The teachers themselves must
recognise their responsibility as
citizens to make sure that their
program for the rehabilitation of
the American school teacher and
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improvement. The teacher is one
of those, among: the wage and
■alary earners upon whom the
sales tax falls most heavily. Is
there any justification in mak
ing the teacher herself the most
heavy contributor to her own ec
onomic rehabilitation? Of course
not."
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