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National Catholic Welfare
Group Condemns Taft
Hartley Slave Proposal
Washington, D. C.—In an of
ficial statement sent to President
Truman and Congressioal leaders
the Social Action Department.
National Cathol'c Welfare Con
ference, expressed strong oppo
sition to the “mild as murder”
labor bill.
The Catholic group said, “The
Taft-Hartley Bill does little or
nothing to encourage labor-man
agement co-operation. On the
contrary, it approaches the com
plicated problem of industrial re
lations from a narrow and ex
cessively legalistic point of view.
It runs the risk of disorganizing
and disrupting industrial relations
by hastily and completely recast
ing the whole range of federal
labor legislation just at the time
when industrial stability is most
desperately needed and, ironically
enough .just at the time when col
lective bargaining shows definite
signs of ^moving towards collet.-,
tive cooperation for the common
good. Instead of encouraging la
bor and management to work to
gether in harmony for>the general
economic welfare, the bill just a
number of legal restrictions on
collective bargaining and part’cu
larly on the activities of trade
i unions — restrictions which will
almost inevitably lead to indus
trial strife and unrest. The bill
is an operi invitation to manage
ment to have recourse to the
courts and to the Labor Board
at also every turn and thus to
side-track or evade the normal
processes of constructive collec
tive bargaining. # It will also re
sult in strikes of all sorts dur
ing the long period in which the
administration and the legality
of the bill are being clarifled.
1$ will create the sort of confu
sion which prevailed in American
industry during the period in
which the National Labor Rela
tions Act was being tested in the
courts. There is no sufficient
reason to risk such wholesale
confusion at the present time.”
The N. C. W. C. group mad<
four specific objections to the
measure: (I) That the wholesale
prohibition of the closed shop ii
an invitation to “legitimate re
bellion on the part of organized
labor;** (2) that denial of the
right of foremen to organized it
unethical and impractical; (3)
that the act, in effect, encouragei
the separate States to enact anti
labor legislation; and (4) that the
provisions requiring union officeri
to disclaim under oath any Com
munist Party affiliation would
"lead to serious confusion . .
and play into the hands of the
communists.”
HARTFORD DIOCESAN LABOR
INSTITUTE URGES VETO OF
THE TAFT-HARTLEY BILL
Hartford, Conn.—In a letter to
President Truman the Executive
Board of the Diocesan Labor In
atitutej Catholic Diocese of Hart
ford, urges him to veto the Taft
Hartley bill because it ia “so con
tradictory of dtar American
ideals.”
The letter, signed by Rev.
Joseph F. Donnelly, Director of
the Labor Institute, and the di
rectors of its chapters in New
Haven, Hartford and New Brit
ain, begina as follows:
“The Anal form of the Labor
Management Relations Act of
1947 which has been submitted
for jrour signature -prompts this
statement by the Diocesan Labor
Institute of the Diocese of Hart
ford. an organisation which in the
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“It is our considered opinion
that the answer of the Eight
ieth Congress1 to our serious and
urgent problems of industrial re
lations is inadequate, immature
and biased, and that it will give
rise to greater problems than
those which it attempts to solve.
“Certainly it is the common
opinion of the American people
that some adjustments are need
in the laws which govern indus
trial relations. Rusting and
creaking joints in the machinery
need lubricating and some sec
tions are obviously in need of re
iesigning. However, it is equally
certain that if is the opinion of^
[ the vast majority of the American
people that thq processes of col
eetive bargaining which during
the past generation have de
veloped effective and direly-need
ed protection for the economic
rights of millions of Americans
should not be weakened or de-'
stroyed. The pitiful status of
workers without the protection
of unions are shameful pages in
our economic history. We do not
need fewer and weaker unions;
we need more effective and en
lightened un'ons which will bring
to those millions of Americans
whose rights are now abused the
protection of th;s collective se
curity now sanctioned by the law
of the land.”
I •
Continuin'?. tlje let*e*- con
centred the forces wYch support
ed th° enactment of th«* Taft
Hartle'- hill as those wh’ch in the
o"s* fought - every proposal fo~
social and economic reform de
signed to give some measure of
security and well-being to tha
people of our country.
i ne same torces, it said, op
posed the Wagner Act a decade
ago and have continued to oppose
necessary leg's’gtion such as so
cial security, minimum wage and
unemployment insurance laws.
Never have those forces initiated
any decent legislative reform and
now they are attempting to
weaken the abil'ty of the work
ing classes to protect and pro
mote the standards for which
they strove against great odds,
the Catholic group declared.
While supporting a few con
structive features of the bill, the
Diocesan Labor Institute con
demned the use of union-cr'ppling
law suits and injunctions and
called for a veto because the “net
effect of this bill will be a serious
weakening of the bargaining
power of American workers and
that it can and will lead to lower
■wages, unemployment and a con
sequent depression.”
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; Washington, D. C.—According
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Board, food prices in Can
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below those in the United States.
! Since August, 1939, the cost of
l'ving in Canada has increased
approximately 30 per cent and
since V-J Day the increase has
been held to 6 per cent, the sur
vey shows. This compares with
j an increase of 54.8 per cent from'
1939 to date in the United States.
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