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GREETINGS HAPPY NEW YEAR HAYES NURSERY TudtMMfM Rood Telophoot 2-3907 CHARLOTTE. N. C. SEASON'S GREETINGS HAPPY NEW YEAR Koolvent Metal Awning Co. 20$ S. McDowell Street Telephone 4-S036 CHARLOTTE. N. C. BEST OF LUCK DURING 1949 Baucom Service Station 3ZI Eeat 7H» Sr. Tel. tHO CHARLOTTE. N. C. A ftimd e# Lefcer - Business Paper Admits Failure Of T-H Law By Arnold Beiehman, New York Correspondent for AFL News Service New York. — Solemn obsequies over the Taft-Hartley law have been intoned by Business Week, a conservative publication whose potency helped sire this moribund antilabor law. Titling its current editorial, “Why the Taft - Hartley Law Failed,” this graveside sermon concedes that the law “went too far.” Reversing the old Latin injunction that nothing except should be spoken about the dead, Business Week, with a candor which would have been far more refreshing had it been visible be fore Election Day, declares that “the Taft-Hartley Act conceivably could wreck the labor movement.” Four provisions are signed out by Business Week as potential destroyers of the free trade un ion movement: “1. Picketing can be restrained by injunction. “2. Employers can petition for a collective bargaining election. “3. Strikers can be held in eligible to vote—while the strike replacements cast the only bal lots. “4. If the outcome of this is a ’no-union’ vote, the government must certify and enforce it. “Anytime there is a surplus labor pool from which an em ployer can hire at least token strike replacements, these four provisions, linked together, pre sumably can destroy a union. “By going that far, the law de feated itself. It was more than a pendulum swing away from the Wagner Act. As a result, not only will the potentially destruc tive features of the law go, but also some of its constructive aspects will be lost in the reac tion." Although Business Week, whose pre-Nov. 2 liturgies to the Taft Hartley law lacked such mundane revelations as those cited above, is specific as to what provisions in the law are antiunion, it curi ously omits any citation of what are the T-H law’s “constuctive aspects.” The editorial attaches the act’s failure to labor’s conviction that it “was an unjust and oppressive law. (Labor) was able to ex press jts conviction politically." Business Week argues that “as far as business was concerned, organized labor never made its case against the law,” although the four provisions cited by the enormously influential business magazine as examples of the T H law’s going “too far,” were precisely the bases of labor’s in dictment against the law. One of the most significant aspect of the editorial is its im plied warning to ultra-reactionary businessmen that a law in a dem ocratic society will fail unless it has the consent of the people. “Only the police state can en force a law which is believed to NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS TO ALL LABOR Sixth Street Garage General Automotive Service All Work Guaranteed 311 I. 6rti Sr. Tol. 4-4008 CHARLOTTE. N. C. HOLIDAY GREETINGS Bert WMm to oil tor • Pro <r«Ms 1949 G. L. Russell Transfer Co. 1244 r«trm> St. Tol. <301 CHARLOTTE, N. C. GREETINGS HAPPY NEW YEAR! Robertson's Drive-In Grill 1901 SmHi Boulevard . CHARLOTTE, H. C. ^ Keep Hj- There! To Gather Data Labor Contracts A new type of report to de termine how many of the over 100,000 labor-management agree ments are signed each year with out a strike is now being de veloped by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor. An article in the December “Labor Information Bulletin ex plains that at the present time no statistics exist which show the extent of peaceful collective bargaining in the United States. The article goes on to say that “strikes are news. They make the headlines. The lay-to-day, even year-to-year, peaceful and interrupted union and employer relations go unheralded and un noticed.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics is now developing a program in tended to supplement its statis tics on strikes with statistics on “industrial peace.” This new ap proach will, for the 4rst time, attempt to- collect data on the number of agreements signed each month, the workers covered by the agreements, and w nether the agreement was reached with out a stoppage. I Unions will uc asked to supply this information to the BLS at regular monthly :nteivals. BLS has drafted as simple post card which a union official fill out and mail just as soon as the agreement is signed. It is expected that BLS will obtain information which will show not only work stoppages but also the number of agree ments signed without any loss in production time or workers’ carn irgs. The estimated 100.000 agree ments signed, amended, or re newed each year directly cover the terms and conditions of work of probably more than 15 million American wage earners. be unjust by the people it af fects,” it declares. But lest any trade unionist should feel that this penitential editorial harbingers long-lived re pentance, Business Week lays down this injunction—that “going back to the original Wagner Act would be going too far.” Already you can hear the war cries, the tom-toms beating, the tocsin warnings — the Wagner Act shall not pass. In that one sentence lies the new, post-elec tion antiunion strategy being formulated for the 81st Congress. *•** Withe* hr a Hgppr and ^rMpanw New Year Dub's Grill OWN 24 HOURS Good Food Courteous Service On North Orahaia— Vx Mach eH Trade Charlotte, S. C. Year Ratrenaf ApprecUH HOW TO KILL A UNION 1. Don’t attend meetings. 2. If you go, go late. 3. If . the weather isn’t pleas ant, stay home. 4. Don’t accept any office; it’s easier to criticise. 5. Never approve anything your officers or committees do. 6. Don’t pay your dues until you have to. 7. Don’t bother recruiting new members. 8. Insist on official notices being sent you, but don’t pay any attention to them when you get them. 9. Don’t waste any courtesy at a meeting. It’s up to your officers to take it. 10. When you don’t like what’s going on say so, but under no circumtrnces offer any constructive suggestions. 11. Devote inoet of your time talking; let someone else do the work. 12. If elected a delegate to a higher body or convention, don’t bother about attending meetings. 13. Then you can report when you get home that the or ganization is in the hands of a political gang and that there is no use trying to do anything about it. 14. Look for hidden motives; don’t credit brother or sister Wi*fce* t* liUr far a Happy °«d Protparaai New Yaar Sanitory Grill Gaarpa Plumidat and Family 111 East Fifth St. (Just around tha comer) CHARLOTTE. N. C. HAPPY NEW YEAR! C. Ed. Griffin Shod Shop Over 90 yaar*' experience Invisible Resoling Free Pickup and Delivery Neighborhood fir Downtown Offices and Stores Leeefed Camay Plata Road and Metkeien Avenue 12)6 MeHtaian Avenue »M 4.9734 CHARLOTTE, N. C. members with any ideals. 15. Don’t co-operate with any officer or committee; make them co-operate with you. 16. Remember that you know more than anyone else about everything:. If they don’t agree with you, they’re wrong. (Reprint from Cleveland Citizen.) 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