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X CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL VOL. XVII; NO. 52 CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 13, 191S Subscription $2.00 Per Year WISCONSIN COURT RULES OUT UTILITY LAW NEWSREEL AND DOCUMEN TARY MOVIES PLANNED FOR UNION-INDUSTRIES SHOW Washington. — Newsreel and documentary movies will be taken at the great Union-industries Show to be held in Milwaukee from May 12 to 16 seconding to an announcement by I. M. Ora burn, show director and secretary treasurer of the AFL’s Union Label Trades Department. Through the medium of motion pictures, millions of people throughout the nation will be able to see the spectacle as presented in the vast Milwaukee auditorium to demonstrate to the public the fruits of labor-management co ' operation. In addition to newsreel “shots” for presentation in public thea ters, a complete educational movie will be made for later showing before clubs, organizations and other groups. This will include detailed picturing of the individual displays depicting union services and union-made products. Mr. Ornbum declared that ad vance reaction to the announced plans for the exposition indicates that capacity audiences will tax the capacity of the aoditoriiito. ^ Aff»arememp, have been *joad4 with schools for the studentste attend in groups which will be staggered throughout the day in order to avoid overflow audiences at night. “The Union-Indastnes Show Is a big-scale exhibition," said Di rector I. M. Ornburn. “The 1948 show will be bigger and better than ever before. It will be more versatile than our past exhibitions because there are ever-increasing verities of union products and services. Almost every American industry will be represented. On the exhibition floor will be shown union-made requirements for all American consumers. AFL mem bers in co-operation with union employers will not only perform the services but they will * ‘de liver the goods/ Food, housing, and clothing needs will be shown. Full requirements for homes, fac tories, transportation and all in stitutions will be one display. Every booth will be ample proof that the American Federation of Labor is not only the servant of all humanity." McCOMB PROPOSES NEW FLSA RECORDS PROVISIONS Washington — William R. Mc Comb, Administrator of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Division, U, S. Department of La bor, made * public a proposed amendment to the Fair Laboi Standards Act record-keeping regulations which would require employers to keep for only three years certain records now re quired to be kept for four years. Employers now are required to keep basic records, such as time cards and similar working rec ords, for two years. This pro vision is unchanged. 1 The giroposal with inspect to flbe other records was made In the light of the Portal-to-Portal _ Act, which establishes to two-year / Weral statute of limitations ap liag to suits for back wages HINES SEES LABOR LAW STIMULATING DISUNITY Reading, Pa.—Lewis G. Hines, AFL national legislative repre sentative, blasted the Taft-Hart ley law and declared it was foist ed on the American people by the National Association 01 Manufac turers which represents the bg business interest of the nation. Hines was the principal speak er at a dinner meeting which concluded a 2-day educational in stitute held on the campus of Al bright College here under the asupices of the Conference of the Conference of Eastern Penn sylvania Central Labor Unions. The AFL spokesman said the general public has been victim-* ized by the propaganda barrage laid down by the NAM and other anti-labor organizations. H e charged that the law has created disunity in the nation at a time when he menace of communsm demands unified action by all , groups to preserve democracy. UNION-INDUSTRIES SHOW WILL BE FULL OF ACTION AND GLAMOUR The Union - Industries Show will be one of the most glamorous events in the history of the Amer ican labor mevement, according to all reports received by I. M. Omburn, director, while in Mil waukee, where the impressive exhibition wll take place, May 12-16, n Milwaukee’s huge audi torium. “Our Union-Industries Show is a visual demonstration of 1 abor tion,” said Mr. Ornburn, “and it will prove that successful collec tive bargaining1 is the best meth od of obtaining the highest qual ity and superb workmanship in both goods and services: It will prove that the high-wage pur chasing power of the millions of members of trade unions and their families is the principal means of absorbing the ever-in-. creasing production of American industry. $n brief, it will prove that our Nation's safety and pros perity mainly depend upon the; union market.” Arrangements are being made ( for many “action” exhibits where in union workers will actually make union-made wares. The mi ralces of the glass jpdustry, for example, will be shown by union bottle blowers and flint glass, workers. Neon signs, with all their glorious colorings, will be manufactued before the very eyes of those in attendance. Union carpenters will have a unique exhibit showing the old-style methods with a hammar and band saw, used by carpenters in for mer years, contrasted with the modern and tsreamlined equip ment of today. There will be many other “live” displays of union-made merchan dise and union services before the vast throngs which are predicted to attend the Union-Industries Show when at noon, May 12, the Govemnor of Wisconsin and other notables will jever the ribbons to the entrance of the four spaciens halls of the Milwaukee Auditori um. PRINTING TRADES ENDORSE FUND DRIVE FOR HISTADRUT New York.—The Allied Print ing Trades Council endorsed the $1,000,000 drive of the American Trade Union Council for Labor Palestine, declared Ralph Wright, secretary of the council. Lauding the role of Histadrut in the Holy Land, Mr. Wright, in a letter to the 19 affiliated lo cals, stated, “The record of its accomplishments for the workers of that country stands as a shin ing monument to its severe trials and mighty labors. The financial assistance now sought through the American Trade Union Coun cil will enable it to continue its great and humanitarian achieve ments.” Patronize fair employers who display the Union Label and you’ll secure your own job as well as the jobs of your brother union ists! Attending meeting of state federation of labor representa tives to discuss setting up o(j state branches of LLPE were the following, from left to right: Reuben G. Soderstrom, president, Illinois Federation; John Reid, secretary, Michigan Federation; Carl Mulled, president, Indiana Federation; and William Nagorsne, secretary, and George A- Haberman, president, both of the Wisconsin Federation. Milwaukee. — Judge Alvin C. Reis of the Wisconsin Circuit Court ruled that the Wisconsin state law providing for compul sory arbitration and prohibiting ; strikes in public utility industries inconstitutional. i In a directly worded opinion notable for the absence of. the usual legal jargon, Judge Reis said the law, which is patterned after a similar Indiana law, is unconstitutional for the following reasons: 1. It forces utility employes into “involuntary servitude con trary to the federal constitution. 2. The law deprives public util ity employes of their “liberty" without due process of law. 3. It discriminates against util ity workers and prevents them from enjoying the right to strike while all other workers in the state are left free to enjoy that right. William Nagorsne, secretary treasurer of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, which waged an unsuccessful tight against en-| actment of the law by the 194 # j legislature, hailed the decision as one of the most “outstanding" rulings in favor of labor. Judge Reis was highly critical | of the sweeping provisions of the law providing for compulsory ar bitration ami at < the same time prohibiting strikes' for any reason before, during or after the arbi tration proceedings. He said in part: “American law always has pro claimed that striked may be law ful or unlawful, depending on purpose. “Yet the Wisconsin legislature of 1947 denounced any strike in a public utility as criminal, whether to obtain a good or an evil end! “There is a host of decisions throughout this land, built up over decades, that a strike to ob tain, for example, a fair wage or reasonable hours, is perfectly lawful. On the other hand, it has !>een held that a strike to prevent others from obtaining work and the denominated “sympathetic” strike, are unlawful. “But our Badger law just flatly orders that every strike sh9.ll be a crime because it happens to oc cur in a public utility. Moreover, though admittedly a strike for fair wages or reasonable hours always is lawful, this 1947 Wis-! consin law seems to announce; No | matter how unfair a deal you I think you have gotten on wages | and hours by the arbitrating 1 to which you were compelled by this law to submit, you cannot strike even after that. You are bound like a bunch of “ninnies” for a year. The fact is that so far as your right to “strike” goes, you are bound until you die, and if you do not like this and choose to go on strike, then you are guilty of a misdemeanor and can be sent to jail.v “Such a law, in our humble opinion, is invalid, whether it is designed to function inside util ties or outside utilities, or both. It is void, and whether It is vout because it shoves ‘involuntary servitude” on men or because- it deprives them of liberty “with out due process 0f law,” is aca demic.” CONGRESS EXTENDS RENT CONTROL FOR YEAR; REJECTS AUTONOMY FOR LOCAL RENT BOARDS and sent to President Truman a compromise measure extending rent control in modified form un til March 31, 1949. In place of the provisions in the House bill which would have given local boards power to de termine whether rent control should be continued, the com promise version established a new federal court to review disputed cases and render a final deccision. The American Federation of La bor approved the grant of arbi trary power to local rent boards on grounds it would mean the virtual end to effective controls. The measure adopted provides that the Emergency Court of Ap peals, established in the Price Control Act of 1942, review fully the evidence of both sides in cases where the Expediter re jects the recommendations sub mitted by the local boards. The court, made up of three or more federal judges named by the £hief Justice of the United States, would automatically receive the' challenged Recommendations. It would be required to uphold rec ommendations based upon "ade quate and substantial evidence’* and suppprt the expediter if it found them "not of sufficient weight." The measure stipulates that the **»•>& local boards must conduct public hearings and give oppro priate advance notice of them be fore arriving at any recommenda tions. In other provisions governing some 50,000,000 persons living in 13,000,000 dwellings under fed eral rent control, the law says: Landlords and tenants may en ter into “voluntary” leases ex tending at least through Decem ber 31, 1949, and permitting rent increases of up to 15 per cent. Units operating under similar leases, under provisions of exist ing law, would be “frozen” at the stipulated rentals without any pyramiding of an additional 15 per cent for the duration of the extension. Units operating under existing “voluntary” leases, that became free from controls through va— canacy between January 1, and the effective date of the extension, would remain uncontrolled. Except for nonpayment or cre tion of a nuisance, a 60-day no tiae would be required for evic tion. Evictions would also be pos sible for dwelling alterations, oc cupancy by a landlord’s immedi ate family os his election to with darw the property from the rent al market. To combat the "co-operative housing racket” in metropolitan # areas, it was provided that 65 per cent of the stock in proposed co-operative apartments had to be held by tenants and occupants.
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