Editorial
CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURN iL & DIXIE FARM NEWS
Published Weekly at Charlotte, N. C._
a a. Stalls, Editor and Publisher wTHTwitter, Associate Editor
Entered a* second-class mail matter September 11, 1981, at the Poet
Office at Charlotte, N. C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879
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LABOR ATTORNEY SAYS TAFT-HARTLEY LAW AID
ING “REDS” BY PROMOTING CONFLICTS
Joseph M. Jacobs, Chicago labor attorney and counsel for
many AFL unions, declared the Taft-Hartley law does not
contribute to the ridding of Communists from the Ameri
can labor movement.
“The new law actually protects Communists and promotes
class conflict instead of industrial harmony,” Jacobs de
clared in an address before the Southern Law Institute.
’ “The law,” said Jacobs, “has singled out union members
as individuals different from all other creatures in our re
public. The leaders of union members must file anti-Com
munist affidavits when no one else must file such state
ments; disruptionists and undercover Communist members
tf a union cannot be fired out of a union if they pay their
dues, but all other groups and associations have the power
to oust undesirable members; a union can be; forced to pay
damages incurred through irresponsible sit-downs and wild
cat strikes called by disruptionists or labor spies planted
in a union, but no other group is saddled by the same over
whelming responsibility.”
“Moreover,” continued Jacobs, “a union must win its
elections by having a majority of all eligible voters, whether
voting or home ill, but no other association, corporation or
political body requires anything move than a majority of
votes cast; a secondary boycott is forbidden to unions, but
business enterprises are not forbidden to throttle a labor
plant by withholding necessary supplies and parts from
that factory; unions must file accounts of all expenditures,
but employer associations are not required to meet the
same test. The list is longer than time allows to recount.
‘“In one crucial area we have already found that the
theory upon which the Taft-Hartley law was based is fal
lacious. For example, jt was believed by Taft-Hartley pro
ponents that, uinon Ru4pbersr were captives of their union
tosses, and that breaking of the chains was an absolute
necessity in order to free workers. The law therefore out
lawed the closed shop which allegedly forced workers into
unions, and surrounded the union shop with many hedges
and obstacles. * -
"However, in the few elections held where union shops
or closed shops had already existed, % per cent of the em
ployes involved partcipiated in the elections, and the vote
in every instance of record was overwhelmingly in favor
of the union. In no instance to date was a former union
shop or closed shop defeated by employe vote. In short,
employes are not captives of unions, as Taft-Hartley would
seem to indicate.
TRUMAN WILL ASK CONGRESS TO REORGANIZE
LABOR DEPARTMENT
President Truman gave his backing to those who are
intent upon rebuilding the Labor Department into a more
effective instrument for service to American workers.
Mr. Truman told the press that he would ask Congress
to approve an extensive governmental reorganization plan
affecting the department.
The plan, he said, would provide a permanent home in
the Labor Department for the United States Employment
Service and the Unemployment Compensation Commission.
The former of these agencies has often been the target
for congressional criticism and has been shifted from pil
lar to post on more than one occasion.
Mr. Truman has stated his desire for a stronger Labor
Department many times, and Secretary of Labor Schwellen
bach still wants “all the labor functions of government”
in his department.
Mr. Sshwellenbach told reporters in July. 1945, when he
assumed office, that he would come up with a plan inside
of six months to give his department jurisdiction over all
the government’s labor affairs. But the plan never mate
rialized and the dejmrtment has grown smaller during his
two-and-a-half-year tenure.
The children’s bureau was transferred to the Federal
Security Agency some two years ago and Congress last
year failed to approve a reorganization plan that would
have kept the employment service in the department after
the war officially ends.
When it passed the Taft-Hartley labor act. Congress gave
Mr. Schwellenbach his hardest blow. It abolished the de
partment’s conciliation service and created a new, indepen
dent Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to handle
labor-management disputes. In addition. Congress dras
tically cut the Labor Department’s budget, forcing a sharp
curtailment of operations.
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NATION TO ACHIEVE 60.000,000 JOBS IN 1918 FOR
SECOND TIME
Employment in 1948 will probably hit the previously
attained record of 60,000,000 jobs, Robert C. Goodwin, di
rector of the United States Employment Service, predicted.
Meanwhile the Census Bureau reported that employment
in November dropped just over 600,000 because'of a season
al decline in farm work. Non-agricultural employment con
tinued to rise, however, to new levels, the bureau declared.
Mr. Goodwin said his ‘'best information” was that na
tional mployment would hover around record levels most
of next, year. Although farm labor would be scarce, he
said, the employment service was planning; a campaign to
recruit agriculauru! workers. ' %
In this connection, the Government has reached a new
agreement with Mexico to permit the importation of Mexi
cans for farm work next year when this country’s farm
labor supply runs short.
Watson B. Miller, Commissioner of Immigration and
Naturalization, said the agreement was an extension of a.
wartime practice begun in 1943. The wartime arrange
ment, however,‘limited the importation of Mexican labor to
100,000 annually. The new agreement will have no limita
tion.
Mr. Goodwin said that the employment service would
take over the responsibility for recruiting farm labor at a
time when “less'labor will be available for agriculture than
since the end of the war.”
“The demand for farm labor in 1948 probably will be the
greatest in peacetime history,” he said.
Mr. Goodwin said that officials of the employment serv
ice over the country were consulting with farmers, farm
organizations and food processor groups to determine fu
ture farm labor needs and to develop programs for supply
ing them.
He, said the job was a big one and would “require the
closest co-operation ^between the employment service,
farmers and other groups and individuals concerned with
the maximum production of food.”
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GREEN URGES HELP
FOR FARM STRIKERS
Washington, D. C.—AFL Presi
dent William Green appealed for
financial assistance for the strik
ing members of the National
Farm Labor Union which is con
ducting a strike against the huge
Di Gorgio Farm at Bakersville.
Calif.
In a circular letter to all na
tional and international unions,
Mr. Green declared the manage
ment of the farm has refused to
recognize the union or to engage
in collective bargaining for in
creased wages and improved
working conditions. He declared:
"Reports indicate the existence
of a fine spirit and morale among
the strikes, hut because the Na
tional Farm Labor Union, which
is one of the newest intmational
unions to be chartered by the
American Federation of Labor,
is not financially able to extend
the help and assistance which the
strikers need at the moment, we,
the officers of the American Fed
eration of Labor, are appealing
to you for financial contributions
for the purpose of supplying food
and assistance to the striking
farm workers herein referred to.
“It is reported that this strike
is effective. The workers need
help and support, however, in
order to win. Please make a gen
erous contribution to these gal
lant strikers and help them to
the extent of your financial abil
ity.
After reading The Journal, pass
it on to your neighbor!
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