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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North, Carolina Friday, April 5, 1935. THE PILOT Published, every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporat<*d, Abcrde«'n and Southern Fines, N. C. NELSON C. HYDE, ManaKing Editor JAMES BOYD STRUTHEKS BURT ^VALTER LIPPMANX Contributing Editors Subscription Rates: One Year — $2.00 Six Months — $1.00 Three Months - -50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second-class mail matter. Civic Loyalty Pays Big Dividends THE WAGNER LABOR BILL BY WALTER LIl’PMANN Opponents of the Wagner la bor bill have been saying that it would set up a “labor dictator ship,” and Senator Wagner has declared that there is not a scin tilla of truth in the charge. No one, I believe, will ever know Sponsored by PAGE MOTOR COMPANY Trv Your Home Town First Wagner provides for elections. But this section, which ought to be his main reliance and the most careful ly worked out part of the bill, is vit- . iated at the start by a complete mis- W'hich of these contentions is , apprehension, it declares that “repre- true. For if the bill were passed it could not be made to work, and instead of a labor dictatorship or the opposite it will simply pro duce interminable and inconclu sive litigation and dispute. In his explanatory statement ac companying the bill Senator Wagner says that Section 7-A is being reduc ed “to a sham and a delusion,” and that "everybody needs a law that is precise and certain.” He is right on both counts. But if ever there was sentatives” chosen by the majority of j the employees in a unit shall be the exclusive representatives of all em ployees in such a unit "though indi vidual? or minorities may present grievances.” The trouble with this is that it assumes thnt elections will show a clear majority of all the employees. That is a mistaiten assumption. If the Senator will reread the famous discussion of the National Labor Re lations Board in the Houde case he a law that is not precise and not cer-1 will see that this very decision up- tain it is his own bill. i holding the majority principle clearly I recognizes that it applies only when The purpose of the bill is to u.«e j there is in fact a majority. ^‘Nor does the power of the Fedeiixl government | this opinion lay down a rule,” it says, to protect the right of wage earners j “where, in an election, representatives to organize in order to bargain col- j have been chosen by a mere plurality lectively. The first question that, of the votes cast or by a majority arises is: What wage earners are; of the votes cast but by less than covered by the bill ? The answer is im-1 a majority of all employees entitled portant if we are to have a precise j to vote.” In the automobile industry, and certain law. Senator Wagner’s ] which must be fairly typical of the conciliation. This much it might hope to do effectively. To attempt more than it can do effectively is to create trouble for every one. CopyriKht, 1935, New York Tribune, Inc. SECOND SPRING BLOSSOM FESTIVAL I Southern Pines is gaily be decked in readiness for the open- i ing next Tuesda;# of its second Spring Blos.som Festival. W'^ith ' an extensive and varied prog ram, something to interest ’ everyone, nothing but inclement weather would appear to stand in the way of a gay week. The festival last year was a pro nounced success. Committees, headed by General Chairman Richardson, have worked hard for some time to make this sec ond attempt better than the first. There will be hundreds of vis itors here. We extend to them a cordial welcome, hope they’ll have a good time, will stay a long time, and come again. answer to this vital question of jur isdiction is completely and absolute ly vague. His bill proposes to draw the Federal government into all la- non-unionized industries, there is no clear majority for anybody. Seventy per cent of the voters are unaffiliat ed with any labor organization. Now bor disputes about the right to or-1 what does Senator Wagner expect the ganize that are “affecting commerce.” I government to do in a situation like Here at the outset is the material for ’ that ? How is it to determine who an endless series of lawsuits. It j has the exclusive right to .speak for would take years for the Supreme j all the employees ? Court to define the practical mean- j it would have to evade the ques- ing of a phrase that is as broad and tion or make an arbitrarj' choice. as woolly as Senator Wagner’s. But suppose it does somehow “cer- The trouble is that; Senator Wag-1 tify” the exclusive representatives. ner is trying to extend the Federal power over labor relations as widely as possible. It would have been more statesmanlike to have begun by lim iting the Federal government’s re sponsibility to the cases it might hope to deal with effectively. Senator Wagner maj^ think he has hit upon a device for stretching the Constitu tion. But what he has really done is to impose upon the government a re- What then? Is it going to try to force the employers to reach an agreement with them, and if so, how is it going to force an agreement ? The underlying fallacy of the whole bill is that Senator Wagner has not distinguished between protecting the right to organize and promoting un ion organization. The right to organ ize can be protected by elections. But sponsibility it cannot possibly meet, j the elections may not, as in the au- His bill leads labor to think that the | tomobile industry, promote unionism. Federal power protects unionization ^ The bill is made quite unworkable by in every town and in every industry; the wishful thought that a free in the United States. But the fact j choice will somehow result in A, F. of is that I' the courts do not deny this | l, unions. power the sheer difficulties of admin istration will nullify it. Thus in one way or the other w'e shall have anoth er sham and delusion. Having embraced all commerce va guely, the bill then defines the “rights of employees” which are to be enforced by civil and criminal sanc tions. These rights are also magnif icently not precise and not certain. An employer may not “interfere” or “restrain” or “coerce” or “dominate" or “encourage” or “discourage” the organization of wage earners. A board of three men in Washington is in trusted with the simple task of de ciding whether an employer in San Francisco discouraged John Smith from joining the A. B. C. union and encouraged him to join the X, Y, Z. It is preposterous to put such a bur den upon mortal men, and it is in the last degree foolish to lead labor to think that the Federal government is as omnipotent and as omniscient as this bill requires it to be. The trouble here is that Senator Wagner is trying to use the cumber some process of litigation to enforce vague “rights” when there is a much simpler ivay of protecting the rights he is trying to protect. This is the method of elections conducted by the Federal government. It is adminiS' Now the Federal government has no power to promote unionism. I am not referring to constitutional power but to actual power assuming that ^ there were not constitutional limita- ions. Unless it rigged the elections by forcing employees to choose between a union ticket and an anti-union ticket, unless it denied them a really free choice of their representatives, it could not create majorities where they do not exist. It has no business to try to create them and no war rant to mislead labor to think it can or will create them. It is a bad bill. It extends the scope of the government's responsi bility beyond the government’^ pow er to discharge that responsibility. It sets up undefined rights and proposes to enforce them by the cumbersome process of litigation and prosecution. It distorts the device of elections by the untrue assumption that elections will show a clear majority. The Ad ministration and Congress will set tle nothing by passing this bill. On the contrary they will multiply many times the troubles they have had with Section 7-A, the lawsuits, the non- compliance, the disappointment of la bor. The bill should, I believe, be scrap- Grains of Sand Spring is really here. The Seaboard fast freight on Tuesday carried about 40 knights of the road returning northward from a winter spent in the sunny Southland, all enjoying the scenery from vantage points on the car tops. “New Meet Outstanding,” head lines Polo Magazine’s article about the race meeting here on March 16th. “It would be difficult to stage a nicer inaugural meeting than that of the Sandhills Steeplechase & Racing Association, midway between Pine- hurst and Southern Pines, on March 16th. An ideal setting stood forth in brilliant sunlight; there were three well-planned races, two over brush and one over timber; the crowd that came to see arrived in cars that must have numbered well over a thousand. If this first meeting is a fair indica tion of what Almet Jenks and his as sociates plan to do, then the Sand hills meeting will be an exceedingly welcome addition to the spring cir cuit,” writes Editor Peter Vischer, who attended the meet here. 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SERL HE.\DS NEW CHURCH IN SARASOT.\, FL.\. ped and a wholly different bill draft- tratively possible for the government! ed. It should be limited to a relative- to conduct a secret ballot. That has been demonstrated. The secrecy of the ballot is the best possible protec tion against individual coercion and intimidation, and the presence of Federal election inspectors during the balloting would go a long way to prevent other forms of coercion. It is true that in Section 9 Senator ly small number of large industries that are unmistakably interstate in character. For these industries gov ernment intervention backed by le- geil compulsion should be limited to the conduct of free elections. Beyond that the government should make no effort to use compulsion to promote unionism or collective bargaining, but should confine itself to mediation and The nev. Elmer Willis Seri, for many years pastor of the Church of Wide Fellowship in Southern Pines, has organized in Sarasota, Fla., the Wide Fellowship Community Church, which is rapidly becoming an impor tant factor in that city’s welfare. EASTER SALE, PROGRAM TODAY AT WIDE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH I*ure Vermont Maple Syrup iS2.25 gal.; SI.30 1-2 gal; 70c qt.; 40c pt. Veniiont >Iaid Syrup $1.50 gal. 85c 1-2 30c pt. 30c qt. Pan Cake Syrup 15c .-Ml Kind.s of Pure Jams in Glass Jars Pure White Clover Honey The Finest Ever 5 lb. Pail $1.00 3 lb. jar 75c; 1 1-2 lb. 40c; 1 II). jar 30c; 1-2 lb. 20c (.’omb Honey 30c Comb Honey, 2 iKtxes 35c I*ure Apple Jelly Homemade and the Best Ever 2 jars 25c, doz. $1.25 Fresh Downy Flake Doughnuts daily, Plain or Whole Wheat, also sugared. Royal Scarlet Coffee and Doughnuts are just fine for your Card Parties. Special price of 20c doz. cn 10 doz. or more. Oranges and Grapefruit by the Bushel, peck or dozen. Grap<‘fruit 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 for 25c. Apples, extra fancy. 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