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North Carolina NELSON IRON & MEM COMPANY Dealers in SCRAP IRON, METALS AND STRUCTURAL STEEL North Marietta Extension Phone 498 Gastonia, North Carolina Compliments of PIEDMONT IRON WORKS North Mariettta Street Gastonia, North Carolina CIRCUIT COURT RUUR6 UP HOLDS URIOR; OROERS BAR 6JUHIH6 REHREMERT PUR Chicago-—Retirement and pen sion plans must be submitted to collective bargaining negotiations by employers at the demand of unions, according to a unanimous decision of the United States CirciUt Court of Appeals here. In a second phase of the same case, the court upheld by a vote of 2 to 1 the constitutionality of the Taft-Hartley law’s require ment that union officers file non Communist affidavits to qualify their unions before the National Labor Relations Board. The decision was handed down in an NLRB case involving the Island Steel Co. and the CIO’s United Steel Workers. Judges Otto Kerner, Sherman Minton and J. Earl Major joined in the decision concerning the retirement and pension plans. Judge Major holding that the non Communist oath section of the law to be unconstitutional dis- j sented from the majority opinion ofi that issue. The case arose when the union demanded that it be given the right to bargain over the case of each employe eligible for retire ment and to include the terms of the pension plan in collective bar gaining as it related to all em ployes. Contending that neither the question of retirement age nor pension-privileges was in the field of collective bargaining, the ! company refused to discuss either with the union. The union ap pealed successfully to the NLRB, which ordered the company to bargain, but attached to its order the condition that the union’s of ficers file non-Communist affida vite within 30 days. The decision placing retirement and pension plans in the area of collective bargaining said that the "controversy has to do with the construction to be given or the meaning to be attached to the <language) ‘for the purpose of collective bargaining in re spect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, or other conditions of employment’.” “We are convinced that the language employed by Congress, considered in connection with the purpose of the act, so clearly in cludes a retirement and pension plan as to leave little, if any, room for construction," the opin ion read. “While, as the company has demonstrated, a reasonable argu ment can be made that the bene fits flowing from such a plan are not ‘wages,’ we think the better and more logical argument is on the other side, and certainly there is, in our opinion, no sound basis for an argument that such a plan Is not clearly included in the phrase ‘other conditions of em ployment’.” The campany held in its brief that a fixed retirement ace was advantageous to employes because it gave advance notice of the time of retirement, eliminated dis putes, provided incentive for younger men and applied alike to all .employes, “We are unable to differentiate between the conceded right of a union to bargain concerning a discharge, and particularly a non* discriminatory discharge, of an employe, and its right to bargain concerning the age at which he is to retire,” the opinion said. la either case, the opinion said, the effect upon the “conditions” of employment was that employment was terminated and the “affected employe is entitled under the act to bargain collectively through his duly selected representatives concerning such termination.” In Ms dissent on the affidavit question, Judge Major pointed out that the law was directed not at unions as such, but at individual officers “each of whom has been empowered to stymie the entire bargaining process and thus de prive the uniou of its right to act as bargaining agent” “And a single official can do this very thing by refusing to make the affidavit for any reason or no reason,” he added. Citing numerous decisions hold ing that the right of workmen to organise and select bargain ing agents came from the Consti tution, irrespective of any rights conferred by the Labor Rela tions Act, Judge Major’s opinion described as “shallow” the reas oning that union members had in their, own hands the power to select officers willing to sign affidavits. ECA SENDS LABOR MEN TO • NATIONS Washington. — Economic Co operation Administrator Paul Hoffman announced the appoint ment of labor advisers to the chiefs of ECA missions in six participating nations of Europe. They are: To Holland, Lee R. Smith, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen. To Italy, William L. Munger, executive secretary of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Work ers. To Belgium and the Luxem bourg, Albert L. Wegener, as r sistant to the president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. To Norway and Denmark, John Gross, former president of the Colorado State Federation of La bor. Even though it could be a fan tastic idea, it has been rather difficult to avoid speculation as to whether the defiance of the Army by Harry Bridges*'1’ West Coast longshoremen might have had some relation to the simul taneous mounting "communist drive for power” in strategic southeast Asia. i GASTONIA TRANSIT COMPMY LOW COST TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENT SERVICE Gastonia, North Carolina GASTONIA COMBED YARN CORPORATION Gastonia, North Carolina •. * f 4 ■ ■ . . i / f l> GREETINGS BARKLEY MACHINE WORKS Gastonia, North Carolina YATES D. 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