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L WILLIUD COMPANY Greensboro, North Cardins a CIRCUIT COURT RUUH6 UP HOLDS UNIOH; ORDERS BAR GMRIR6 RETIREMENT 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 Inland 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 sented from the majority opinion on 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 vits 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 fanguage 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 apian is not clearly included in the phrase ‘other conditions of cm pjoyment The company held in its brief that a fixed retirement age was advantageous to employes because it gave advance notice of the tiase 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 be is to retire,” the opinion said. In 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 terracr.ation.” In his 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 pocess and thus de prive the union of its right to act as bargaining agtr “And a single offie.al 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 C NATIONS Washington. — Economic Co operation Administrator Paul Hoffman an nonneed 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 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. 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