Labor Law Restrictions
Made To Wreck Labor
Albany, N. Y.—Harold C.
Hanover, secretary-treasurer
of the New York State Fed
oration of Labor, charged
' that er/ictment of the Taft
7Hartley law’ is convincing ev
idence that there is under
way in this country a power
ful, well-organized and ade
quately-resourced movement
to destroy the institution of
organized labor.
Mr. Hanover spoke before the
•*,* Serial Mission* Institute of the
Eastern Conference of the Unit
■ - ed Lotheran Conference of the
United Lutheran Synod of New
York.on the general topic, “What
Labor Expects of the Church."
As examples of the evidence of
the* anti-labor campaign, Hanover
referred to the provisions of the
law dealing with strikes and the
dosed shop. On the strike ques
tion, he declared the law takes
the first step toward the ultimate
banning of all strikes on the part
of labor. He said:
“Under its terms, a government
ngency is authorized to declare
« that a projected strike will jeop
ardize the public interest and wel
fare and' upon this declaration it
can go into court and ask an In
junction to prevent the strike.
“It requires little imagination
to realize how this vast power
ran be used to nullify labor's right
An strike by the arbitrary determi
r alien that every strike threatens
-the public interest and welfare.
This is not to say power will be
abused in this fashion. I am
merely pointing out its potentiali
ties.
“By reinstating tbi ^junction,
the first step has been taken to
abridge the right to strike.
Abridge today, abolish tomorrow
has been the historic formula
throughout history of those who
mouthed freedom, but practiced
.lyranny.”
Turning to the closed shop,
Hanover denounced the propagan
da which has branded it as “un
American and a denial of the in
dividual’s right to work.” He
likened the closed shop to prac
tices in existence for profession
al men in the business world.
“Each of these has had special
training in his profession. The law
recognizes that this training pecu
liarly fib the physician, lawyer,
and clergyman for his work. It
protect* the effort, the sacrifice,
yes, the investment he has made
to acquire this training by mak
ing these professions virtually
closed shops, denied to all indi
viduals except those who have
qualified by training and met
certain standards.
“The closed shop in plant or
factory is nothing more than the
extension of this same protection
over the effort, sacrifice and in
vestment of the worker.
“Under the Taft-Hartley law,
the first step has been taken to
destroy this protection for the
worker. Closed shops in exist
nce may continue, hut new ones
Hre banned, except under certain
conditions.”.
On the position of the church,
Mr. Hanover said:
"The ehurch can and should ac
tively interest itself in the cause
of the millions. It should famil
iarize itself with the historical
background of labor’s struggle foy
social and economic equality. It
should view the attempts to de
stroy labor's gains as threats to
itself, because . their end ' result
will be the encouragement and
growth of Communism by the
class division they breed, the low
r living standards that will fol
low.
“These attitudes, implemented
by active interest, are what la
bor expects of the church.”
30-HOUR WEEK PACT SIGNED
Louisville, Ky.—The first con
tract In this area to provide a
30-hour week has been signed
between and AFL federal local of
enathelers and the American Ra
diator Standard A Sanitary Co.
Five hundred workers are cov
ered.
Have yoa sent in your subscrip
tion to the Journal for the new
year? If not do so today. We
need your support.
HEIGH-HO, MY Di}|R¥ 0 .
THE FARMER ISN'T MILKING!
/S\ _
The dairy industry in the Piedmont Carolinas has
doubled its production in the lost fifteen years.
Piedmont Dairy farmers are steadily producing
more and more milk with a decrease of man
power in proportion to volume
This is possible becouse electricity gives wonder
ful aid in the dairy . . . milking the cows, cooling
ond separating milk, washing and lighting stalls,
pumping water, grinding grain, cutting ensilage,
drying and hoisting hay . . . even fencing to
make use of every foot of grazing.
And it does the work of 13 strong men ot the
omazing wage of 2 cents on hour?
OWER COMPANY
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Last Polio Health Hint:
Avoid Sudden Chilling!
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CONGRESS URGED TO RAISE
MINIMUM WAGE TO 75 CENTS
(Contined From Page 1)
$500,000, and employes engaged
in industrialised agriculture.
Further, Mason asked Congress
to broaden the language of the
act to provide coverage for all
employes in industries “affecting
commerce," The original phrase
“engaged in commerce or in the
production of goods for com
merce," is more restrictive, he
said, and has deprived over a
million persons of the protection
afforded by the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act.
Summing up, Mr. Mason reiter
ated the AFL’s faith in the prin
ciple of minimum wage legislation
as "society’s judgment of the low
est rate for which an individual
should be permitted to work in
our economy.”
“The time is long overdue for
Congress to reassert its faith hi
this principle by setting a mini
mum wage commensurate with
existing economic conditions, by
revising the act to provide for a
more equitable enforcement, and
by expanding the minimum wage
1 principle until eventually it cov
ers al] workers to whom it can
be legally applied.
DOHERTY URGES RAISES
FOR LETTER CARRIERS
(Continued Fro* Page 1)
friture tf the right to strike or
engage in collective bargaining
ia stoical indifference.”
Citing the recent change in
the Postal Laws and Regain*
tkmn incorporating the Taft*
Hartley law's lan against
. strikes by Government ea*
, ployes. Mr. Doherty explained*
that the Letter Carriers Asso
ciation "willingly forfeited that
'right' long before any law
maker reduced a prohibition
against it to writing.” He add
ed:
"We have always believed
that when a person enters the
Postal Service, Just as when he
enters the Army or Navy of
the United States, he should
acknowledge no allegiance to
any other powen or outside au
thority that was greater than
or above the United States.
Fro* the very inception of the
NALC in ISM that policy has
been subscribed to; during the
course of the years it has re
peatedly been reiterated. We
herewith affirm it to be the ex
isting policy of the National
Association of Letter Carriers.”
U. S. LABOR PRAISED BY
AFL's WILLIAM GREEN
_
(Pleas* Tara te Page 4)
good sense and good judgment of
our members and we believe that
when all the facts are made clear
to them they are perfectly capable
of judging for themselves whom
to support and whom to oppose
in the political elections.
“The political conditions to
which the workers of Germany |
are re forced to submit under the
Naxi regime would be intoler
able to American workers. The
German workers never had the
option to vote “no.” The Nazis
permitted only one political party
after they seised power—their
own. No worker was allowed to
oppose it except at the risk of
his life.
“Totalitarian government, de
pending as it does on force rath
er than voluntary support of the
people, does not dare to permit
the existence of opposition nor
the expression of criticism.
“P»eseisr* some of the rea
sons why the free workers of
America will never under any
circumstances accept any form of
totalitarianism.”
NEW YORK FIRM'S FACE
VERY SERIOUS CHARGES
(Continued From Page 1)
with each other, to choke. off
competition from other invest
ment bankers, to block sales’ to
the highest bidder, to get
around State ami Federal reg
ulations, to promote big stock
and bond issues so they could
make fees am their salq and to
draw the ho si ness of buying
and retailing stocks and bonds
into a single market where they
had an advantage over others.
The court was asked to break
up the alleged conspiracy by
ordering the bankers to decide
whether they would advise a
company that wanted to issue
stocks and bonds, or would
handle the issue, by ordering
■everal groups of banking
houses to stop forming pools
to handle security issues Joint*
ly, by ordering the bankers not
to place their officers and
agents on the boards of direc
tors of companies for which
they handled securities and by
ordering the bankers not to
make agreements to kill compe
tition.
CAMDEN AFL WORKERS TO
GET 5-CENT HOURLY BOOST
Philadelphia, Pa.—Some 600
employes at the R. M. Hollings
head Corp. plant in Camden have
been awarded ‘an increase in
wages of 5-cents-an-hour across
the board and a two-year con
tract providing for reopening of
wage and vacation discussions on
August 16, 1948. The wage in
crease was retroactive to October
16, when a contract with Local
22130, Automotive Chemical Prod
ucts Union (AFL) expired.
necessities. But our «Krf(atr
aid will be definite assurance of
the continuing support <rf this na
tion for the free peogMe of'Eu
rope."
Declaring that Uteasr domestic
and foreign problem* present a
challenge to the A me neon people(
the President declared' “it is with
in our power to lead: Me world: to. f
peace and plenty."
"With resolution and united eft
fort, we shall achieve our goal."
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