The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 7, 1947 Page: 4 of 4
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DALLAS POWER & LI6HT COMPANY
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The workers will appreciate this
thoughtful consideration on your part
Make room bn street cars and buses
for workers. Ride and shop between
10 and 4.
On behalf of all those who work in
factories, stores, offices and elsewhere,
who must ride during the rush hours in
the morning and afternoon we urge
you to shop between 10 and 4.
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—Don’t use string with wire in it.
—Don t climb poles or trees near
electric wires.
QUALITY LAUNDRY, DRY CLEANING, RUGS, LACS CUBTAU8,
DRAPERIES BEAUTIFULLY CLEANED
Ideal Laundry and Cleaning Company
T MUI Dallas Quality Laaadry for 88 Years tt!4 Reas
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pression and
crowded labor
employers,
fraternal
liquor, tobacco aad -horse-racing—as
it spends on education, and then con-
stantly refuses to pay adequate sal-
aries for the education of its chil-
dren. Buffalo is one of the richest
cities in one of the richest States in
the Nation, and yet we find public
school teachers compelled to strike
for an adequate Hvtng wage.
"Teachers in New York State, as in
many other States, are caught be-
tween restrictive legislation at both
local and state levels so that addl-
» the boards of education
-strike policy by paying
pent wages so that they
compelled to strike.
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REDDY KILOWATT KITE FLYERS 1
ARE ALWAYS SAFETY-WISE I
THEY STAY CLEAR OF LECTRIC WIRES
AND FLY IN OPEN SKIES!
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“KIRK WILL WORK”
Kite flying’s fun ... but not when your kites get tangled up
in electric wires. Chances are you’ll lose your kite (and
nobody wants to do that) and lots of times it causes lots
of trouble for lots of people.
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has a large
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laws which
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tires whldh show that approximately
76 percent of all workers in all in-
dustries covered by agreements are
presently embraced under one form
or another of union-security provi-
sion. in view of the important place
the union-shop principle occupies In
the philosophy and tradition of the
trade union movement, and in view of
the institution It has become in Amer-
ican Industry, suggestions completely
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haa been more than amply Justified.
We know that bis own progressive
and patriotic Impulses, left free aud
unfettered, will. In the future as In
the past, contribute to America’s
growth and greatness, and we are
therefore compelled to resist any ef-
fort. legislative or otherwise, that
threatens his most cherished posses-
sions of freedom and dignity.
addressed to unlawful acts like as-
saults and batteries. they are com-
pletely subject to regulation and con-
trol by the State authorities, and
under our fedem system of govern-
ment that is precisely where
belong. Ths National Labor Relations
Board is not and should Dot bo a
police court.
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and H.R. 76 are identical bills. They
proclaim
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ception to the provisions contained in
several proposals, such M “ ~ —
H.R. Ml and HR 1096 1 _________
any strikes during the period that a mocracy.
Green Regrets—
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jurisdictional conflict. A united labor
movement would mean a termination
of all that; it would mean one organi-
zation acting in unity instead of two
organizations fighting each other
twenty-four hours of each day. This is
the remedy which the Executive Coun-
cil of the American Federation of La-
bor sincerely proposes for the settle-
ment of the internecin warfare within
the ranks of labor and the termina-
tion of jurisdictional differences.
“Mr. Murray has thus tar refused to
respond favorably to the offer of the
American Federation of Labor to meet
and agree upon labor unity and
through the establishment of labor
unity bring an end to the conflicts anrf
jurisdictional differences which exist.
I have no knowledge that Mr. Murray
has ever attempted to get together
with the American Federation of La-
bor on the jurisdictional issue as he
stated in the testimony be submitted
to your committee on February 19th.”
of an many
which assure
relations and
of necessary
Excerpts of Green
Statement Hittir
Anti-Labor B
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government agency is seeking settle-
ment of a dispute by mediation or
conciliation or for the period of a
specified number of days following in-
tervention by the board, whichever
occurs first.
We have on several occasions ex-
plained the reasons for our opposition
to the compulsory cooling -of V pa-
rted. First, we object to it on prin-
ciple. It is unjustified invasion of
an essential liberty—the right to
strike—and violates the spirit, if not
the letter, of the Thirteenth Amend-
ment prohibiting Involuntary servi-
tude. Second, it suggests what la
completely untrue, namely that unions
impetuously call and engage in
strikes in a moment of heated excite-
ment and in reckless disregard for
the welfare either of union members
or of the general public and without
allowing any opportunity for govern-
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for which affiliated unions were urged
to press during the war period. This
program anticipated the crisis which
now faces American education and
which advocated better salaries, ten-
ure of office and retirement provisions.
Had the teachers of the Nation been
adequately organized to carry out this
program the present crisis would not
have developed, and the teachers of
Buffalo, St. Paul and other cities would
never have been compelled to resort
to strikes.”
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I husband is a Dalias Railw
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So... fly your kites, hut be careful of electric wires! Find
a nice big field with no electric wires around and have lots
of fun ...IN SAFETY!
tlonal funds are not immediately avail-
able to grant salary Increases which,
however, are justly deserved.
"The State Legislature i
part of the responstMIb
strikes because of existing
do not provide adequat* ._ .
and at the same time do not permit
local communities to raise sufficient
funds to psy adequate. salaries to
teachere and to provide adequate edu-
cational facilities. Thus, teachers are
caught between Scylla, on one hand,
and Charybdis on tbs other.
“In a large sense, the teachers of
the Nation are in part responsible
for the sad plight of the Nation’s
schools. The teachers, over the years,
have not been organised in sufficient
strength to demand adequate salaries
and to protect the schools. The school
children have paid a heavy price'for
the lack of organization on the part
of their teachers.
"At the beginning of World War II.
a lot safer for you ... if your kite gets caught in the
wires... not to climb poles or a roof or a tree to get it
off yourself. It’s mighty easy to get luyt with electricity
that way, and if you'll just call us at Central-9321 and ask
for I rouble Division, we'll gladly get your kite down
for you.
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for the strike rather than the teach-
they
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“A primary responsibility of boards
of education is to work out such a
program of school financing that
teachers may be paid salaries com-
mensurate with their costly univer-
sity training, their highly skilled
work and their value to their com-
munity. --w
"Failure of boards of education to
provide adequate salaries for teach-
ers is a fundamental failure of a pub-
lic agency, and any board which
forces teachers to take such drastic
action as to strike is curiously negli-
gent of a public trust
"Frankly, we wonder what Is the
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proposals, outlawing the
union-security principle throughout
American industry, ar* not only bit-
terly reactionary, but flout over 100
years of traditional Industrial prac-
tice and return organised labor to the
same status it occupied at the very
beginning of its struggles for recogni-
tion. They portray a profound ignor-
ance of economics and economic phi-
losophy and a deep misunderstanding
of the purposes and functions of the
union-security principles. As long
ago as 1902 s Congressional Indus-
trial Commission reported the urgent
and justified necessity of the union-
security principle, saying that "the
final result” of the open shop “will be
the destruction of i he organization.’’
There Is probably no right other
than the right to strike which organ-
ized labor deems more consecrated or
more indispensable to its continued
maintenance and well being than the
right to seek and obtain union-securi-
ty agreements through the process of
collective bargaining.
l ull Membership Important
Furthermore, and the importance of
this cannot be over-emphasized, a
union is able to maintain all of Its ob-
ligations under its contracts only if
all employes covered by the contract
are members of the union. The union
acts only through its members and
their elected officers and cannot be
expected to police an agreement thor-
oughly if only some of the employes
are members of the union and thus
subject to Its rules, laws and disci-
pline.
That the union-shop principle has
become a characteristic and establ-
ished part of the American Industrial
system is seen from recent BLS fig-
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Conclusion
As I told the Senate Committee last
week, the large number of proposals
now before this Committee are ill-
considered in the extreme. I say with
full conviction and full sincerity that
their enactment would produce such
great industrial confusion as to seri-
ously undermine the present world
position of the United States.
It to not "defeatist” or "negative"
as some superficially say, to oppose
legislation of the kind I have been
discussing. On the contrary, opposi-
tion to legislation that to ill-consider-
ed. that will produce incalculable
harm to our national economy and
welfare, to the affirmative duty of
evory constructive citizen and group.
The truth to that the sponsors of anti-
labor legislation are defeatists and
negative.
We have every faith in the Ameri-
Washington. I>. Ca—Excerpts from
the statement delivered by AFL Pres-
ident William Green before the House
Education and Istbor Committee, dis-
cussing a wide range of anti-labor
bills pending before that group, fol-
low:
It would, plainly, be physically im-
possible within any reasonable time
to take up and discues with you all
of the provisions of the exceedingly
large number of bills dealing with
labor relations that have been re-
ferred to this commlUee. I believe,
therefore, that I can be most helpful
to this committee if I should present
the views of the American Federa-
tion of Labor on those important
questions'VERB are Ue subject of
most of the proposals before this com-
mittee; more specifically, the closed
shop, secondary boycotts, check-off,
cooling-off periods, minority strikes,
registration and financial accounting
of labor organizations, jurisdictional
disputes, amendments to the Wagner
Act and compulsory arbitration.
At tbe very outset let me challenge
the very basis on which this legisla-
tion has been presented to the coun-
try. It is claimed to be a remedy
against strikes. It to not. It to di-
rected not against strikes but against
the process of collective bargaining
itself.
Does this legislation deal with the
causes of industrial unrest that has
swept the country since V-J Day?
Does it reach the issues that were
behind the disputes through which we
have gone? The answer to categori-
es 11 y-A’o!
The record, which no one can dis-
pute. shows that during the moat crit-
ical period following the termination
of hostilitietr. SS out of every 100
worker* who enweged in a work stop-
page did so only because they were
< aught in the economic vise of rising
prices and declining postwar income.
Outlawing the In Ion Shop
H.R. 7 and other bills seeks to im-
pose a compulaory open shop on Amer-
ican Industry and American labor,
and this even though the majority, or
MINIMUM Ml-CENT SCALE
IS SET IN MASSACHI SETTS
Boston, Mass.—The State Depart-
ment of lAbor and Industries has or-
dered a minimum wage of 60 cents an
hour, effective March 1, for all expe-
rienced clerical and similar workers
in the State.
Officials of the Department of Iji-
bor have said that the new order es-
tablishes the highest minimum wage
In the country for that type of work.
The order fixes a minimum starting
wage for inexperienced at 55 cents
an hour and sets 800 hours as the
maximum working time after which
a worker must be considered "expe-
rienced.”
to outlaw the union-shop relationship tlvi
through legislative action must be un-
alterably opposed.
It Im a certainty that the adoption
of such suggestions wtald result in a
vast disruption of our economy.
Prohibition Agai««‘ B«7eotto
The complete prohibition of nil so-
called "secondary boycotts” is sought
by H.R. 725, H R. 97 and H.R. 244.
Only an enraged and vindicative de-
termination to punish labor, no mat-
ter what the effect on labor's and the
entire public’s welfare will be, can
explain this objective. It simply ig-
nores and confounds the most elemen-
tal realities of tbe free enterprise,
competitive system. Whether in-
tended or otherwise, this objective, if
achieved, would go far toward re-
storing the intolerable evil of the
sweatshop and all of the disastrous
economic consequences that the sweat-
shop implies.
That is so because in many In-
stances It to impractical or impossible
for a Kost of reas«bs to establish de-
cent work standards save by peace-
ful, economic pressure brought to
bear on the customers or suppliers of
unfair employers. The operation of a
substandard plant means that tbe
fair and humane employer, anxious
to maintain decent work standards
and adequate mass consuming power,
must, out of pressure of competition,
either be forced out of business or
abandon his fair and humane prac-
tices. It mehns the decimation of one
of the most constructive contributions
made by organized labor to American
progress and tbe American way of
life--namely, the elimination of com-
petitive advantages based solely on
the crude exploitation of human be-
ings.
It means, finally, that the working
people of this country would be com-
pelled by law themselves to destroy
the standards of living achieved over
the years.
Dnrs Check-off System
Some of the proposals, as for exam-
ple. H.K. 122 and H.R. 880 would ren-
der illegal the dues check-off arrange-
ment established through tbe process
of collective bargaining. In 1945
slightly over 5.3 million workers or
about 39 percent of all employes
under agreement, were covered by
checld-off provisions.
Not only is the check-off a rela-
Why your kite, flimsy as it seems, may even cut off some-
body’s electric service ... especially if it gets crossed up in
the wires just right. Just think, your kite might even knock
out the lights for, say, a whole block!
common provision but it to one
of long standing, existing for more
than 40 years in some industries.
Ths many thousands of such pres-
ently existing, check-off agreements
would be outlawed by these Mils. I
am advised by counsel that under
principles of contract law there to a
strong possibility that should the
check-off provision in such agree-
ments bo rendered illegal by statute
then tbe parties to the agreement
would have th right to consider the
entire agreemnt at an end.
Since there has been no serious
critictom of the check-off arrangement
on moral or other grounds, it seems
of doubtful wisdom even to risk the
automatic termination M
collective agreements
stability in Industrial
continued production
commodities.
( oollsg-Off Period
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for that matter, 100 percent of the
employe involved had selected a
union and desired lo work under
union-shop conditions and the em-
ployer was willing to grant such con-
ditions.
These
mental agencies to attempt mediation caa worker, and we say that that faith
and conciliation. That suggestion, is
utterly false and contrary to the
demonstrable facte. Third, it to im-
pFACtiC&blS.
It has not worked in the past, as
overwhelmingly shown by our expe-
rience under the War Labor Disputes
Act, and it will not work in the fu-
ture. Unions faced with such a leg-
islative freeze will be forced, in order
to avoid its harsh consequences, rap-
idly to develop their differences with
thei remployers into full-blown for-
mal labor disputes in order to invoke
the services of the mediation and con-
ciliation agencies and immediately to
start the “cooling-off period.
Minority Strikes
Section 105 of H R 725 makes it
unlawful to call any strike if upon a
“secret ballot” a majority of the em-
ployes voting do not approve such
strike or cessation of work.
Certainly, it to the basic right of
any citizen of a free country to cease
employment at any time that any
given conditions become intolerable to
him. and he can do that singly, or in
the company of a minority of his fel-
low workers, or in the company of all
his fellow workers. Accordingly, any
flat limitation upon that right as to
any group of employes, be that a
minority group or a majority group,
is intolerable in a free democratic
society, and certainly would be un-
constitutional If the Thirteenth
Amendment has any meaning. A
provision identical in substance was
enacted by the State of Alabama. In
holding that provision unconstitu-
tional the Supreme Court of that
State used this significant language:
"We are persuaded, also, that that
part of Section 13 of the act, making
it unlawful to strike except when It is
authorized by vote of the majority of
the regular employes working In the
business, plant, or In such unit there-
of. expressed by a secret ballot, can-
not be sustained. As we have previ-
ously noted, each individual employe
has a right to strike for a legally jus-
tifiable purpose, and such a right,
of course, rests upon a minority as
well as upon a majority . . .
"We are all convinced that a pro-
hibition to strike placed upon a tni-
norlty group, unless sanctioned by
secret ballot of others who are with-
out interest in their welfare to an un-
reasonable and arbitrary restraint
and must be stricken down." Ala-
bama State Federation of Labor v.
McAdory. et al, 246 Ala. 1.
Registration and Financial Account-
ing of l^bor Organisations
If H. R. 8. H.R. 726 and others
dealing with this question embody the
principle that labor organisations are
subject to licensing by the Govern*-
ment, and thus exist only at the suf-
ferance of tbe Government, it must
be opposed If it to mere registra-
tion. then there to no objection in
principle. However, on the practical
side, it is to be noted that the re-
quired report concerning Internal af-
fairs of labor unions, and in particu-
lar concerning the state of their
finances, to. under some of the pro-
posals, to be made available not only
to union members but to the general
public.
Since, through public filing, a
union's financial position la made
known to the employer, that employ-
er’s willingness to bargain and his
good faith in making counter-propos-
als may very well be conditioned by
his estimate of the unions ability to
weather either a lockout or a strike,
it is certain that public disclosures,
which mean disclosures to the em-
ployer, will result in a crippling of
the bargaining process.
If the Congress should find It neces-
sary to enact legislation requiring
registration and financial accounting
♦hen common justice and equal treat-
ment demand that the same require-
ment be imposed upon
trade associations, and all
organizations.
Jurisdictional DhpatM
H.R. 1096. H R 880 and H.R 725,
nmong others, would outlaw so-called
"jurisdictional strikes’* under any and
all circumstances. Basically the jur-
isdictional strike involves the right
to do a certain type of work and
hence the right to earn a livelihood.
They are most acute in times of de-
in times of an over-
market When strik-
ing is the only alternative to starv-
ing are such strikes to be outlawed*
Until and unless our society to pre-
pared to provide employment for all
who are willing to work, attempt to
outlaw the jurisdictional strike can
have no moral justification.
Amendments to the Wagner Art
H R. 725. H.It 1095. H.R. 8. HR.
90. H R. 80. H R. 1094 and others
provide for extensive, complex and
detailed revisions of the Natlo nal La-
bor Relations Act.
Unfair Labor I’ractlres
We are opposed to tbe provision in
several of the bills making it an un-
fair practice for labor unions to inter-
fere with the righta of employes to
self organization, designation of rep-
resentatives, and tbe like.
In so far as this provision may be
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14. H R. 48. HR. 76
authorize th* President to _
the existence or threatened existence
of a public emergency because of a
labor dispute and to issue an order
prohibiting any lockout, strike or other
work stoppage and they require the
parties to submit to compulsory arbi-
tration.
Organized, labor to unalterably op-
posed to compulsory arbitration as
are tbe leading spokesmen of indus-
try. Our reasons are many and clear.
Compulsory arbitration is the very
antithesis of collective bargaining, and
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