The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 9, 1936, Page 6

| THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER 5 An Independent Newspaper (Established 1873) smarck Tribune State, City and County Officiai Newspaper The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D. and by entered at the postoffice at Bismarck as second class mail matter. Mrs. Stella I. Mann President and Publisher Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Sec'y-' Kenneth W Simons Treas. and. Editor Subscription Rates Payable in Advance mail per year (in Bismarck) mail per year (in state outside mail outside of North Dakota mail in state, per year .. mail outside of North Weekly by mail in Canada, per year Bs3seey Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for republica- credited to it or not otherwise credited in thie news of spontaneous origin published herein. tion of t jew: Sewepaper end siso the local All rights of republication of all other matter here! im are also reserved. A Long-Time Plan The speed with which the government has moved to com- bat the effects of drouth in this and neighboring states is high- ly gratifying to all of us who are in need of help, but more com- mendable still is the decision to view the condition now exist- ing here as a long-time problem. It is a bitter conclusion to reach, but the fact is that 40 years of cultivation have done things to these prairies and there is little prospect that they can be made to produce enough to justify farmers living on them under the present system of farming. To face the facts is not to sell North Dakota “short,” for an intelligent survey of our resources shows there is no need What we do need is to assemble our resources and unite them so they can be used to better advantage by putting for that. water on the land. The exact details of the government’s plan for long-time rehabilitation of farming in this area have not been disclosed. They probably have not yet been worked out. of necessity, consist of putting water and land together for the establishment of a stable and dependable economy. Both farmers and businessmen should extend their whole- hearted cooperation in both the emergency relief effort and the long-time plan, for therein lies their salvation. something definite or move out and no one needs to be told the consequences which would attend the latter decision. The Resettlement Administration already has adopted the plan of taking people off marginal land and putting them on other land in this state. Some of this work is justifiable, but a wholesale exodus cannot be countenanced or justified. would wreck the entire economic structure of western North Dakota. The farmer who is taken off one piece of land and put on another may do better in his new place than in the old, but the businessman who depended upon that.farmer for trade in his original location has no recourse but to also fold up his tent and steal away—probably only after hanging on as long as he could. When two representatives of the Resettlement Adminis- tration were here recently they made no secret of the fact that serious consideration has been given to moving people out of this area in large numbers because drouth has become a habit here and the bulk of the population has been too long on relief. THE ONLY REASON THEY AREN'T DOING IT ON A BROADER SCALE IS THAT IT WOULD BE POOR POLITICS. They remember the much-advertised and not too success- ful Matanuska project in Alaska and are inclined to go care- Their next recourse, then, is to attempt to establish better conditions in this area so people can continue to live fully. here and make a living here. It is only natural that city folks should be somewhat more enthusiastic about the prospect for irrigation than are the After all, the farmers will have to do the work if such projects are organized. As a result they are slower to farmers. reach a decision. ‘But intelligent farmers, staring at seared fields which haven’t produced a cash crop in four years, are willing to ad- mit that drastic measures are necessary. The result is to make everyone willing to pitch in and help. In its efforts to rehabilitate this region the government should get complete and enthusiastic cooperation. matter of choice so much as one of grim necessity. All But the Farme: Despite the pounding which agriculture is taking from the adverse forces of nature, it is interesting to note that much of the rest of the population in the United States finds the going a little easier. Thus the statisticians inform us that “real income” was better during May than for “any previous month since recov- ery set in.” Cash income was $1.12 as compared with $1 for May, 1935, As a result, ‘wage earners were 10 cents on the dollar better off in May this and their expenses increased only two per year as compared with the year before. Of the improvement, most. of the money went to wage earners. They received advances of 15 per cent while salaries ‘were up only 10 per cent and returns from investments eight per cent. On the debit side of the ledger, house rent ‘rose 11 per cent but most other items, including foods, cost no more than a year r cent. ago. Some items, including clothing, were a little cheaper. This is cheering news for the farmer, even though he now is hard pressed because of scanty production. It assures him that there will be a market for his goods if and when he is able to produee them. | =witenood is not lightly to be se ¢ ee ” ‘Two others, for : eee / "In 8 way, Roopevelt and Lemke have it over Landon. He still has to : wandeeyo that tarribie suspetue, pending notiicetion of his nonination, But they must, It is either do It is not a Behind Scenes Washington Place Pets in Important Marine Pests .. Subsidies, By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, July 9—President Roo- sevelt has a fine chance to start mak- ing good on his acceptance speech of the new Maritime Authority, which will plan, build up, regulate, and sub- sidize the American merchant marine. But it will be practically a miracle if this commission is kept out of the hands of the shipping promoters who have been draining huge profits from federal subsidies ever since the war and have left the taxpayers with @ pitifully inadequate merchant fleet. The new ship subsidy act, latest of many efforts to expand the merchant marine, was a victory for those who sought safeguards against the preda- tory promoters who have dominated Secretary of Commerce Roper’s ship- ping board bureau and continued the scandals of previous administrations. The shipping lobbyists shrieked in anguish after frantic efforts to de- feat it. The victory will be empty unless an authority is appointed which will make those safeguards operative. The subsidy lobby seeks to pack the com- mission and its staff with as many friends, “plants,” stooges, and pipe- lines as it can get in. * * ® Lobby Boosts Mcintyre Operators are said to be making 8 strong drive for appointment of White House Secretary Marvin McIntyre as one of the five commissioners. Big- ear “Mac” has always been their pal. Some who know Roosevelt's mind believe that McIntyre has been @ sufficient embarrassment in his pres- ent job to cause the president to con- sider him seriously for one of the merchant marine posts. If Shipping Board Director J. C. Peacock and Assistant Secretary of Commerce J. M. Johnson were also appointed, the set-up would be per- fect for the promoters. Johnson once boasted of his merchant marine knowledge to a senate committee by well as any man in this room.” Senators and representatives re- sponsible for the safeguarding feat- ures of the act are backing such men as Thomas M. Woodward, consumers’ counsel for the coal commission and formerly with the shipping board; Solicitor Karl Crowley of the Postof- fice Department; Congressman Ed- ward C. Moran of Maine, prominent in the subsidy battle in congress; Otto Praeger of the shipping board; and O. P. M. Brown, formerly of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. All these men have demonstrated @ lack of subservience to shipping interests. It * * * Handles Huge Sums The Authority will handle hundreds of millions of dollars in loans and direct subsidies, after outlining a po- licy as to just what's needed for a merchant marine. The biggest innovation in the new act is its attempt to guarantee build- ing of new ships through an author- ization for the commission to con- struct and charter vessels, with wide discretion, if it finds that. necessary. Salary limitation of $25,000 and strict accounting systems are provid- ed, plus recapture on profits over 10 per cent, limitation of shipyards’ Profits on subsidized ships to 10 per cent, and strict regulation of holding companies and subsidiaries which heretofore have siphoned off profits from subsidies. Operating subsidies will be granted to cover difference between foreign and American costs. Construction costs are to be subsidized similarly, the Authority paying full cost to the shipbuilder, charging the foreign dif- ferential to the treasury, and selling the ship to the operator for at least 25 per cent of the cost in cash and the remaining 75 per cent in 20-year notes. * es % Victory for Liberals The act, essentially similar to the bill Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania offered as a substitute for the Bland- Copeland bill favored by the lobby, was passed after Senators Black of Alabama and Clark of Missouri had filibustered against the billion-dollar Treasury-Postoffice appropriation bill which carried $26,500,000 in ocean mail subsidies. Lobbyists, who had thought they had the senate bill stopped in the house, were thrown into confusion. White House pressure resulted in house passage under a special rule, whereupon Black and Clark smiling- ly stopped filibustering. It was one of the outstanding vic- tories of the session for congressional liberals, who now hope it won't turn out to be an empty triumph. (Copyright,. 1936, NEA Service, Inc.) BIT OF HUMOR NOW AND THEN Roosevelt Can Make Geed on a Promise by Naming Capable Mari- . Lobby Is Seeking to « Liberals Hope Act. Will End Ship Operators’ Harvest from when he appoints the five members saying “I can handle a small boat as, zon, an examination of the differences eR iar A Re Re nee eh toe open ramiemrepcnoned een SSS aoe THURSDAY, JULY 9, For the Campaign Whisperer eed Looking at Washington Washington, July 9.—In view of the labor warfare going on this summer and the strike threats on the hori- between the Republican and New) Deal platform planks on labor legis- lation discloses the very fundamentals jof present day disputes. President Roosevelt, it appears, has at one time used the exact language of the Re- publican plank. Basically both platforms favor “col- | lective bargaining” by representatives of workmen chosen by the workmen; themselves. The catch comes in the three methods by which the bargain- ing representatives are selected, whether the choice is free from any | coercion at all, whether the choice is linfluenced by employers and finally whether rival employee organizations can influence, intimidate or coerce workmen into joining one type of un- ion in preference to another. The New Deal platform says: “We have written into the law of the land the worker's right to col- lective bargaining and self-organiza- tion free from the interference of employers.” The Republican platform says: “We pledge ourselves to protect the right of labor to organize and to bar- gain collectively through representa- tives of its own choosing without in- terferance from any source.” President Roosevelt in a public statement on March 25, 1934, after a threatened strike in the automobile industry had been averted, said: “The government makes it clear that it favors no particular union or form of union or particular form of employe organization or representa- tion. The government's only duty is to secure absolute and uninfluenced freedom of choice without coercion, restraint, or intimidation from any source.” Thus Mr. Roosevelt himself first used the famous phrase “without coercion from any source,” which is even stronger than “without inter- ference from any source. In any event, Mr. Roosevelt did not consider the interference of only one side, namely the employers, but took into account the actualities of modern. labor disputes wherein warring fac- tions of employees coerce or interfere with one another while the employ- ers often have no part in the strife. Such a situation exists in many an; industry where shop unions occur. These organizations of employees elect their own representatives for collective bargaining, but they have no affiliation with outside unions in other companies or plants. A s0- called national union will send its membership advocates to a plant and secure a nucleus of members, These members will begin missionary work inside the. plant to get more mem- bers. Finally. when a substantial number of members has been attain- ed, not necessarily a majority, a strike will.be threatened and demands will be presented. If the employer capitulates because he does not want an interruption of production at a busy time, the move is promptly interpreted as the result. (Copyright, 1936, by David Lawrence) |then the mention of “employers” is| representatives when engaged in bar- equally unnecessary. Certainly, if the law is ever tested in the supreme ‘court of the United States, this in- equality of protection may be a fac- tor in invalidating the national labor relations act which contains almost the exact phraseology of the New Deal platform plank on this point. There is no authority in the fed- eral government to regulate employer and employee relations, to many decisions of the supreme court of the United States, but a legislative declaration in favor of collective bar- gaining has in itself no objection and has merit as forwarding the cause of democracy in the ranks of labor, The New Deal plank is a direct re- versal of the position taken by Mr. Roosevelt, not only in his public state- ment of March, 1934, but of the provi- sions of the automobile code which he Promulgated on August 26, 1933, as a part of the national recovery act. That code said: “Employees shall be free from in- terference, restraint or coercion of employers of labor or thefr agents in. the designations of such representa- tives or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargain- ing.” At that time and in connection with the code, Donald Richberg, gen- eral counsel for the NRA, issued & statement as follows: “The recovery act and its admin- istrators do not contemplate that any Particular labor organization should be enthroned by government fiat or by government aid and invested with power to control destinies of any in- dustry or all industries. The guiding principle is written in the statute that employees shall have the right to organize or bargain collectively through: representatives of their own choosing.” Now it is claimed by national labor union spokesmen that the shop or Plant unions are often congas of the employer and that officers are paid out of company funds. Doubt- less in some cases this is true, but there are other cases wherein the men in @ shop have complete control of their bargaining representatives and do not object to the payment by the company for time lost by bargaining ————————— So They Say 1 Of all forms of gambling, sweep- stakes and lotteries, if honestly run, are the most innocent. — Professor * = Men like the yellows and warm tints of light. Women know this. That's why they always prepare when .there is a likely prospect— An educated weakling is a disap- of the superior bargaining skill of the | 8004. group or faction which successfully presented its demands. 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