The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 10, 1937, Page 4

4 = a acd la The Bismarck Tribune ‘ Independent 4 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Bstabliahed 1873) State, City and County Official Newspaper Published daily except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- marek, ND, and tere atte posoic at Bamarck vce Gat tal watter. Mrs. Stella 1. Mann President and Treasurer Kenneth W. Simons Secretary and Editor Archie O. Johnson Vice Pres. and Gen'l. Manager Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica- tion of the news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspapei d also the local news of spontaneous origin publi! herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also 4. Enlightened Industry Passage by the senate of the 40-40 bill (40-hour maximum week and 40 cents an hour minimum wage) should be viewed in the light of the condition which has been created BY INDUS- TRY WITHOUT GOVERNMENT COMPULSION. An investigation by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States shows that the average wage in 1936 was 57.2 cents an hour and it has since gone higher. Full-time workers got $1,678 in 1936, the highest average in the history of the WORLD. Labor got 66.5 per cent of the national income, also a new high. The average work week in 1986 was 38.9 hours and the effect of public agitation has been to eliminate child labor in all but a few industries. , That is why the senate voted the 40-40 bill without much protest from the major industries of America, No one gets excited about a restrictive measure except those whom it would effect. Hence the opposition came largely from the South, where standards still are low. , The net result of the survey is to show that enlightened and intelligent industry is far in advance of legislation, that the government is hurrying to catch up with it. Behind the Scene Washington Cotton Declines, Se Congress Will Stick. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Washington, Aug.:10.—There is no more assurance as to when congzess will adjourn than there was two or three months ago. As against a strong general desire to get away, especially reinforced by southern members who want no wage-hour legislation, are various new developments which may keep the house and senate here until the middle of September—or allow them a brief vacation and bring them back by October. Perhaps the most important such factors are the recent drop in the price of cotton, which put the admin- istration’s south opposition in some- thing of a hole, and a secret coali- tion of northern senators with farm state senators to get behind both wage-hour and crop control legisla- tion. eek * Cotton Tune Changed The development in cotton caused & prompt appeal to the White House from most of the southern contingent which had been insisting rather dis- dainfully that there was no need of further legislation this session. To the request of southerners for a fed- eral loan of 12 cents a pound Roose- velt replied there would be no re- newal of crop loans unless congress passed crop control legislation such as he had vainly requested. This ap- peared to give the president, with his veto power something in the nature of ® temporary whiphand. The senate'’s vote of 56 to 28 for the wage-hour bill has pepped up drooping spirits and defeatist atti- tudes among administration congres- ton’s house labor committee, The figures do much to counteract the idea that every em- ployer is trying to wring the last penny from his employes, that he visions himself as a slave-driver and the worker as a serf. It also suggests a step which DECENT INDUSTRY might posedly under control, voted over- whelmingly porncres senate bill. * Vote ‘Swap’ Possible properly take to make the public understand what it is doing | fisht sgainst and the degree of social enlightenment now prevalent almost ee 3 That step would include the establishment of minimum standards by voluntary action of each industry. The employer who met the standard would be permitted to advertise the fact and brand his goods accordingly. Educational campaigns could and ‘should be conducted to enlist public support so that the average person would know when he was buying goods made under sub-standard conditions. The idea could be carried further and decent industry given the right to advertise those who DID NOT meet the standard, thereby warning the public as to the articles produced by firms rejecting enlightened leadership. This is not a new idea. One of its earliest applications was that of trade unions which encouraged their members to buy only union-made goods. The idea there was. to protect the union workman in his job. Now it is becoming increasingly necessary to protect the DECENT EMPLOYER in his business. If he is subjected to sweatshop competition he may be forced eventually td go out of business or to reduce his own standards. That would be bad for all concerned. In other words, industry needs organization to give voice to and protect the standards it already has established— STANDARDS FAR IN ADVANCE OF THE 40-40 BILL. Such organization should be voluntary. The government need have nothing to do with it. In fact! the government had best leave the matter alone, if industry will step out and do the things it obviously can do to solve the situation. This idea may seem ‘fantastic, but it is clearly better, cheaper and more sensible than setting up a governmental bu- reau to dominate the labor relations of industry to the possible detriment of both worker and employer. It would do much to solve the labor problem and eliminate strikes, answer the very pressing question of what to do with labor leaders hungry for power. WHAT INDUSTRY NEEDS IS A LEADER WHO CAN GIVE EXPRESSION TO THE HIGH SOCIAL STANDARDS movement, which now seems to have lost some of its starch. Meanwhile a “prairie bloc” has been formed with the idea of trad- ing with northern members on the basis of votes for a stronger wage- hour bill and votes for a far-reach- ing farm bill. If this trade works ou! well you probably will be hearing that the combination has some farm- er-labor party seeds in it. Meanwhile, there’s a good chance that farm ’leg- islation will contribute toward pro- tracting the session longer than had been expected. xk * Insists on Action There is still some’ possibility that congress will go home without acting on all the administration’s “Must” legislation. But it’s s small one. Roosevelt recently told Senate Lead- er Alben Barkley, Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader, Sam Rayburn that if congress walked out on him he would go to the country with de- nunciation via radio. ese & Tax, Sugar Hurdles Threats of tax loop-hole legislation which would be retroactive are to be heard and certainly would cause ter- tific commotion if the administra- tion got behind it. The best bet is that. the administration won't dare. Roosevelt has just tossed in another likely cause of delayed adjournment by notifying house sugar bloc leaders that he would veto any sugar lation which retained present rest tions on Hawaiian and Puerto Rican sugar refining operations. Differences between various senate and house versions of legislation in- dicate the possibility of long drawn out conference squabbles. Roosevelt may decide to veto the tion bill because the Tydings-Miller re- tail price-fixing bill has been at- tached to it as a rider. So more time would be consumed. IT ALREADY HAS ADOPTED FOR ITSELF. Following a Pattern Few things better illustrate the trend of American legis- lation than the train limit bill passed recently by the United States senate. _ it clearly was NOT in the best interests of/all the people, yet it was given approval and may become a law. It will benefit _ one small class at the cost of other classes if finally placed on the statute books, yet a majority of elected officials voted for it. Before getting wroth about this sell-out of the interests of the people, howeyer, it might be wise to note the fact that the trainmen were merely copying others in more genteel pro- fessions. Whenever, for example, you see a professional group appear- ing before any legislative body you may be sure they have the SAME KIND OF AN IRON IN THE POLITICAL FIRE. All restrictive measures having to do with business, trades or the professions are presented as in the PUBLIC interest. The claim is made that public health, peace, prosperity or safety are at stake. Such was the case with the train limit bill. The senate was told that shorter trains make for more safety when, as a matter of fact, almost every senator knew that the reverse was true. The records on that point are un- impeachable. But the trainmen should not be condemned. They were It is a curious thing that, while the argument is always based on public interest, agitation for such measures always He is expected to hold up appoint- ment of Supreme Court Justice Van Devanter’s successor until the very end of the session—as a matter of strategy. Meanwhile the prevalent notion here is that will get away between the 2ist and 28th of August. But, even though congress can act with lightning speed at times, that notion is approaching absurdity. (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) 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Copyright 1987, by The Baltimore Sus WHATS THE RUSH? ‘The more one grasps the chief fea- ture of the president’s wage and hour control bill. the clearer become the reasons Mr, Roosevelt considered it so tremendously vital for his program to pack the supreme court with men ot his own choosing, who would “pull” with him—why the filling of one or even two, vacancies seemed not enough to suit his purpose. Because there is @ very strong con- viction that if—as appears likely— this bill becomes law at this session ultimately it will land im:.the legislative cemetery as the late/ la- mented NRA, which it seeks to revive | h: in what the former head of that ill- fated organization declares a far more obnoxious form. In other words, such & law would be sustained only by hand-picked’ justices, expressly chosen for that . The basis for this belief is the clarity with which the present court has insisted that congress constitutionally cannot del- egate such vast powers to federal agents or agencies. It was Mr. Justice Cardozo, one et the recognized liberals on the bench who has -been—and is—sym- pathetic with the New Deal philos- ophy and with much of its legislation, who most emphatically expressed this view, asserting that congress cannot grant a “roving commission to a fed- eral agent. It was not merely a ma- Jerity which concurred in this opinion —it was the entire court. All nine justices felt that way. For the lay mind, at any rate, it is difficult to conceive a greater delegation of power ot @ more “roving commission” than HORIZONTAL 1,6Man who ¢« ‘discovered the JBAIR! law of gravi- tation. . 12 Coercion. 13 To lift up. fa 14Legal claim. | 15 Window come {A|NIT| partments. 1 IDIE [Alt} 16 To marry. iL] 17 Electrical unit 18 Scarlet. 20 Road. 21 You. 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