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General Harrison
Hails Expansion
Of U. S. Industry
In a statement issued upon his,
resignation as Administrator of
the Defense Production Adminis
tration, Gen. William H. Harrison
reviewed major accomplishments
during: his eight months of par
ticipation in the national produc
tion effort. He urged that our
expansion of industrial capacity i
not be looked upon only as an in
surance against the emergency of!
total war.
“If we are successful in fore
stalling such a catastrophe.” Gen.
Harrison said, “the expansion of
our resources and our productive
capacity will greatly accelerate
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our economic progress.
Gen. Harrison predicted that if
our production effort is continued
with the same determination as
has marked it to date—and if yre
encounter no unforeseen obstacfes
—we should see, in about 18
months, the beginning of an in
crease in the standard of living of
this country at a much faster
rate than we would have other
wise enjoyed.
Gen. Harrison said a major fac
tor in the success of the defense
program to date has been the ad
vice and co-operation of the en
tire American business commun
ity.
“Not only did the industrialists
co-operate by coming to Wash
ington to help us get organized,”
he said, “but they served on com
mittees to advise the National
Production Authority on the need
and extent of controls.”
The General said he believed
that “we have made a most suc
cessful start in putting the vari
ous controls upon the economy to
work,” and pointed out that the
dire predictions of the effect of
the controls on industry and em
ployment have not come to pass.
“Unemployment is virtually
non-existent,” he said, “and the
bankruptcy rate is lower. There
has been a minimum of true hard
ship to industry and to civilians.
In fact, the nation is in what I
would call very good shape. Last
fall the productive index was 220;
now’ it stands at 234.”
Union people owe a debt of
co-operation and helpfulness to
their brothers. If it were ntf
for the other fellows in the Un
ion, each man would stand alone.
Then where would he be?
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patently had discarded from his
lapel.
Not-So- Petty
The misuse of State-owned cars
once more is hittin* the head
lines. It doesn’t sound like
much when one man drives a
car home at night, then mebbe
takes the missus back downtown
to a movie. But when you add
it up it comes to a not-so-petty
sum of state cash gone down
the drain.
In the latest drive to stop
this, the Governor called on At
torney General Harry McMul
lan to find out what could be
done to stop the goings on.
Mr. Mac told the Governor
that folks using State-owned
cars for their private use could
be fined from $100 to $1,000 or
jailed, in the discretion of the
court.
In addition, all except elected
state officials could he fired for
such njisuse. In the case of
elected officials, they would have
to be impeached by the General
Assembly, but the attorney gen
eral said he doubted that this
would be done for that reason.
So don’t l>e surprised if sev
eral state employees either get
fined or fired in a drive to stamp
out this “not-so-petty”* graft.
Collective Bargainimg
What War All Is About
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Paul L. Styles, newest mem* |
ber of the National Labor Re
lations Board, spoke last week
at the Hosiery Workers con
vention in Philadelphia. What
he had to say was so important
that we are passing along this
summary for the information of
every union member.
In these days, when we are en
gaged in a world contest that
sometimes seems to dwarf the
great holocaust of World War II,
we hear quite a bit of talk that
seems to suggest that collective
bargaining should be temporarily
side-tracked, that it is a luxury
we cannot afford in such times of i
crisis. This talk, even when it1
comes from the uninformed or
the misinformed, is cause for
alarm. Essentially, there are only
four ways in which terms and
conditions of employment can be
determined: (I) They can be
fixed by the employer; (2) They
can be imposed by the union. (3)
rhey can be ordered by government
decree; and (4) They can be de
termined by collective bargaining.
Our history has made it clear
that the first two methods—in
volving absolute unilateral action
by the employer or the union—
are incompatible with our system
of free enterprise.
The third course—in which the
government dictates every single
detail of the conditions under
which enterprises shall operate
and free men shall work —- is j
what the fighting is all about..
Shall we, at home, adopt the very
measures which we abhor, and
thereby give impetus to those
forces of centralized government
control that we are pitted against
all over the world?
The fourth course — collective
bargaining between the chosen
representatives of management
and labor—may not be the per
fect system, but it is the best
ever devised by men jealous of
their liberties.
It is just 25 years ago this
month that Congress first adopted
as a national policy the require
ment that employers meet and
bargain in good faith with the
representatives of their employees
as a group. At first, Congress
adopted this policy only for the
railway industry. Nine years
later, Congress applied it to all
industry afTecting interstate> com
merce, except agriculture.
That does not mean that col
lective bargaining was born just
25 years ago. Not by any means.
Historians trace the first collec
tive bargaining in America back
to 1636. The men involved in
this incident were a group of so
called “bound” workmen and fish
ermen. They met with an agent
of their employer and tried to
persuade him to pay them a
year’s wages which he was with
holding. The men finally resort
ed to mast desertions, which the
employer’s agent described as "a
mutiny.” Five years later the
same employer’s agent was com
plaining that his workmen had
engaged in a work stoppage one
afternoon to protest inadequate
food. Those probably were the
first attempts by employees at
collective bargaining in America.
It was not until ISO years later
that the first trade anion actually
resembling the unions of today
appeared.
The appearance of organiza
tions of employees devoted to bar
gaining on a collective basis at
a time almost exactly coincident
with the rise of the democracy
is not just one of those accidents
of history. Collective bargaining;
is merely another manifestation
of the democratic idea. Properly
conceived, it is just a matter of
bringing democracy into the fac
tory or shop.
The importance of collective |
bargaining in a democratic so
ciety was well summarised by
Congress in the National Labor
Relations Act of 1935, better |
known as the Wagner Act. The
Act said:
“The inequality of bargaining
power between employee#* who
do not possess full freedom of
association or actual liberty of
contract, and employers who
are organized in the corporate
or other forms of ownership
association substantially bur
dens and affects the flow of
commerce, and tends to aggra
vate recurrent business depres
sions, by depressing wage rates
and the purchasing power of
wage earners in industry and
by preventing the stabilization
of competitive wage rates and
working conditions within and
between industries.
“Experience has proved that
protection by law of the right
of employees to organize and
bargain collectively safeguards
commerce from injury, impair
ment, or interruption, and pro
motes the flow of commerce by
removing certain recognized
sources of industrial strife and
unrest, by encouraging practices
fundamental to the friendly ad
justment of industrial disputes
arising out of differences as to
wages, hours, or other working
conditions, and by restoring
equality of bargaining power
between employers and em
ployees.”
That is still the national pol
icy. In 1947, when Congress was
revising the labor-management re
lations statute, the lawmakers
i found no reason to change a word
of this statement. Experience has
proved beyond doubt the wisdom
of it.
It ia in this language—plus the
statement of the employer’s and
union’s* duty to bargain in good
i faith—that you have the keystone
of the entire structure of govern
ment and collective bargaining.
The very nature and cause of
our emergency underscores the
importance of strengthening the
principles of collective bargain
ing.
There are no short-cuts to the
benefits of orderly collective bar
gaining. Before either manage
ment or labor, for reasons of their
own immediate advantage, decide
to follow a wili-o-the-wisp substi
tute for collective bargaining, let
them remember that industry and
labor not only enjoy more free
j dom but are more productive
when they work together under
mutually agreed terms taan under
| conditions dictated by government.
True, emergency and stabilixa
| tion measures mean modification
| of collective bargaining. Herein
lies the challenge. Management
and labor, to preserve and aug
ment their joint strength, should
I fashion, through negotiation, these
modifications. In short, collective
bargaining should be the tool for
sharpening and shaping collective
bargaining procedures for the du
ration. To do otherwise, is to for
get the lessons of history and lose
the larger fight.—The Machinist.
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