The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1937, Page 6

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All rights of republication of eli other matter herein are also resi Wagner Act in North Dakota Call by the National Association of Manufacturers for revision of the Wagner labor act would fall on deaf ears were §t not for the obvious excesses to which government agents have gone in their efforts to prove their friendliness to the organized labor movement. The nature and extent of these excesses is demonstrated fn the case of a Western North Dakota employer who is widely known for both his integrity and his open-minded attitude. He giso has the reputation of being fair to labor. In recent months efforts have been made to “unionize” this particular plant. The agitation has been led by an agent for a labor union but it hasn’t gotten very far. The men showed no enthusiasm for it. - When the organizer failed, a representative of the Na- tional Labor Relations Board appeared on the scene and tried io threaten the employer into signing a union contract. The contract urged upon the employer contained the “check-off” clause. Under it the employer would deduct union dues, amounting in some cases to as high as $15 a month, from the employes’ pay envelope. And the employe would be forever barred from changing it. His affairs would be forever committed to the care of the union and the union’s agents. The “check-off” is one sure way not only of keeping the employer in hand but of keeping union members under strict control. Along about this time came an incident which bares the weakness of the union movement as now conducted. At one time in the past the employer had found it neces- sary to cut wages if he was to meet the payroll. When he did so he promised to put them back when, as and if he could. Recently he found himself able to increase his wage scale and talked it over with his employes. His idea was to give those in the upper brackets a 10-per-cent raise, lift the lower brackets 25 per cent since the low-paid employes needed it worse than their fellows. The upper-bracket men were those whom the agitator had attempted to unionize. Thinking this was an opportunity for him, he began the union agitation anew. In effect, his story was “to hell with the low-paid classes. You get yours.” But the men involved recognized justice when they saw it. They approved the employers action. , And the government agent, who had attempted to place his official power behind the unionization movement, was told where he got off. He went back to Minneapolis. This is a sample taken from our own state which, by and large, is not seriously bothered by labor disputes. If govern- ment agents take the same attitude in the big industrial dis- tricts it is no wonder the manufacturers association demands a change. There is evidence that the people generally favor making the government an adjudicator of labor disputes. This may be necessary in the public interest. But there also is evidence that the people resent perversion of the functions of government to the extent that it becomes an adjunct of a union labor organization. They feel the gov- ernment should maintain freedom of action and assume the role of umpire—as in fact the law contemplated it would do. Workers in the lower-paid classes are more numerous than the unionized “princes of labor” and these men resent any effort to penalize-them to favor men with greater skills or higher classifications. At the same time the public is fearful lest we develop our government into a labor union dictatorship controlling the whole country. It is opposed in principle to the kind of admin- oe the Wagner law has been given and hence to the law itself. Because of these factors, the demand by the manufac- turers that the Wagner law be revised is quite likely to bring congressional action. Not because the manufacturers them- tad can put it over but simply because the people are sick it. Should Have Guilty Conscience Somebody in or near Oklahoma City has—or should have— 2 guilty conscience. When the plaster ceiling of a schoolroom fell in Monday, injuring 15 children, one perhaps fatally, the folk of that city * wrong with their school administration. : For good plaster ceilings don’t fall down. When such a conspiracy to malét'thé taxpayer? struck and innocent children became the victim of it. to children, but the consequences of his act were inevitable and, had he stopped to think, he-would have known it. In Deteolt, whee Tony Marg ts showing, it's the type for thes historical play {said @ word to the president or any- received tragic notice that something either is or has been A structural work fails it is because someone skimped on the job. pe A Was it a contractor who cut: too close a corner in an effort to-make a few’extra dollars and thus jeopardized the lives of innocent children? Was it a school board which, in one of the richest cities in ‘the nation, skimped on its specifications? Was it'a building inspector who shirked his duty? Or was it # combination of all three—and perhaps of others—engaged in Whatever it-was,-someone is guilty of a crime which is all the worse because it was secret and hidden until disaster Whoever “skinned” that job didn’t intend to cause injury Be. WRN eRe ‘ Behiod Scenes Washington “Bob” Jackson, Who Can Do Every- thing, May Be New Deal's Hope in Pivotal New York State for the 1940 Elections, By RODNEY DUTCHER Corresponden) 10.—Roosevelt once said of Assistant Attorney Gen- eral Robert H. Jackson: “He is the only man I have who can do everything.” Jackson, who caught the biggest fish on the recent presidential vaca- tion trip, is the administration's fair- haired boy. The. president’s personal fondness for him explains why he was invited on the trip for conversations which could just as well have been had in the White House. The conversations between the two men, however, were potentidlly of great political importance. One sub- ject was anti-monopoly legislation, on which Jackson, as head of the justice department's anti-trust section and perhaps the most brilliant all-round lawyer in the government service, is the administration expert. New York Key to 1940 The other topic had to do with Roosevelt's concern over the 1938 elections in New York state. The president wants Jackson to be the Democratic candidate for governor there next year—in case Postmaster General Jim Farley decides not to seek that post. It has been widely believed that Farley wants to be gov- ernor and Roosevelt will back him 100 per cent if he does. But Jim hasn't one else, and F. D. R. appears to have exhibited a delicate reticence about! asking him. Meanwhile, New York state is vir- tually the key to 1940. Any presiden- tial candidate who can’t carry it prob- ably can’t win the election. If Repub- licans should elect a governor, senator or both in Roosevelt's home state next year, the New Deal's prestige and Political fortunes would suffer a ter- tific blow. Also, any reasonably con- servative Republican governor or senator from New York would almost automatically become a leading Re- publican presidential candidate. District Attorney Tom Dewey of New York City, able and spectacular anti-racket crusader, won a sensation- al victory over Tammany opposition in the recent New York election and fair- ly exudes political “it.” More and more he is becoming a white hope to the battered Republicans—and corre- & menace by the Democrats. Dewey is certain to run for gover- clans believe. What of LaGuardia? clans is convinced that Farley could lick any Republican gubernatorial nominee—except Dewey. They doubt whether anyone could beat Dewey— much the same type of appeal as a able public servant. Farley's greatest handicap might be his inability to ob- tain support of the American Labor Party, which polled nearly 500,000 votes for Mayor F. H. LaGuardia last month and also has strength upstate. The A. L. P, would be likely to support Jackson if he were the Democratic candidete, if only because Dewey two men, and—like everyone might not want to take a crack at the governorship, perhaps in a deal with Governor Lehman, who would is to have Wagner's seat in the sen- ate, People’s Forum Eéltor’s Note—The comes: lette: ent, Lett Tribune wel- ubsects of inter- ng with contro- versial ri subjects, which attack Individuals untet which offend good taste play wils be returned to tt ers. All letters ST b jecessary and to Fi a wri! ‘. ro Le a pata play be Mmlted to 600 words, —_——_ . WANTS RELIEF FIRST 4 Bist » N. D. Ww days ago, while traveling in the eastern. part of the pared I chanced to pass a ball diamond. Be- ing somewhat ofa baseball fan my- i, aug a an ak 2 me a few Questions in regard to’ what I saw, namely a strip of cinders about 10 feet wide around the entire diamond zes i z E g E 3 3 E F 3 i EE | A] spondingly ts regarded increasingly @5 ation of the speech made the other, night by Senator Pat Harrison, chair. man of the great Senate Finance nor next year, administration pollti-|Committee. Because, besides being a very sound speech, horse sense and unmistakable sin- One group of administration politi- | cerit first statesman since the beginning of connected with’ the” administration except Jackson. A native New Yorke | connec 1 er, as kson carries |Personally to admit a mistake. Even Pegpeaikeg ned ee prior to the first Roosevelt. election cle » urbane, tremely |it is not easy pub nae public life who made a fession. It is true the President early in his first term, not once but twice, assured the people that the new and startling legislation he proposed was experimental, and that if any of it proved not to work well he would be the first to say so. would be the more conservative of the | praised at the time, has remained sin- gularly unfulfilled. Though experi. Polsed in mid-air is LaGuardia,|ment after experiment who also has presidential aspirations|some of the major ones have been else—wonders |abandoned and others, such as the which way various political cats are|Rural Rehabilitation administration, | inj Going to. jump. Conceivably he will|lie crumpled and confused, not once Tun for the senate as a Republican. |in nearly five years has the President And ‘there is speculation whetlier Sen- eatin aot Galt erent ator . an er Ne , Fea, ae (, Democrat, | ana little, have held thelr pose of jn- fallibility and blandly pursue their way through the wreckage of their expensive schemes as though every- thing were splendid. rison’s declaration the more notable, Your Personal Health ‘By William Brady, M. D. Dr, Brady will answer questions pertaining to health but not iagnosis. Write Tetlers briefly and in ink. iaress Dr. ttn Tribuné, All queries must be Cocompanted by « stem essed envelope. It is @ grave mistake for subjects of chronic bronchitis, winter to take any kind of cough medicine containing any kind of sedative oz Narootic, except under medical instruction, Ill-advised use of medicines by subjects of chronic bronchitis is contributing cause of pneumonia in many a z ra efetity 5s ge g He i ey E) : QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Extra Systele What causes extra systole of the heart? Is there any danger to life con- nected with it? (R. O. A.) , Answer—Various causes. Not necessarily serious. The Great Game of POLITICS Copyright 1937, by The Baltimere San By FRANK R. KENT Neeser boron o ooo os. GOOD FOR THE SOUL ‘For four years he. co-operated with ‘There ought to be general appreci- |Mr. Roosevelt in every legislative pro- ‘|posal, though some of them clashed _|With his convictions and revolted his Teason, Last year it was Senator Har- ison who took from the President the vicious undistributed-surplus tax, sold to him by Dr. Oliphant, the Treasury adviser, and put it through the Sen- ate, disregarding the warnings and over-riding the opposition. Now, Mr. indeed, full of ing perfectly well known that he was never at any time in whole-hearted with the New Deal ity, ft set something of @ precedent. Certainly, Senator Harrison is the to recall any man in cone) of going on the supreme court. After the death of Mr. Robinson and his own failure to be elected leader, ral freely lowed profit ‘similar strongly supported a year ago. He had believed, said Senator But that noble promise, warmly it has bogged, | i , wipe out the mistake. . “I told Kopak what would happen if be tried to dig basement ‘ekeanigen = | Bird of Prey — ] Answer to Previous Pussie ITIHIOIMIAIS IMIAISIAIRIY IK] POUR MEWiOlE MAIL! EINIS] trace the step, Mr, Harrison E All ‘of which makes Senator Har- to get $28, all in the name of recrea- tion. I sure would hate to run my business under this system. I wonder just how long before the taxpayers will become nauseated and put a stop to such waste of public F Ha ae z : z aQ tnonies? Wouldn'y it be better to put RiOMEBIETTMMTILITIAINNIC] t's a.” the Beake: cn some ct eet EINMECIAIDIMDIOIDIOISMNCIA] este nests'in Biotec Cross ta tse tears a Sane nae Sey ents a INMECIO ¥ R hecassties of life, a little more liberal HOW THEEND PLAY WORKS ~ 11 Row ott ote tN aeed Rt of skitt} medical care, including dentistry? It’s Hae By Giving Lead Away Temporarily, the Declarer Can Force / Opponent to Return Needed Trick’ IDMMAISISIE TRIE] 32 Aurora SIPIAI TIS MEP IA} Golf device. By WILLIAM E, McKENNEY HIE IAIVIE MEL IAID|S} 35 To (Secretary, American Contract Bridge League) It IRIGIPIVIOILTT IC) To this project and that .The not opposed to recreation and ment—not by » jugful—but lieve human misery should care of one hundred per ‘Then, if we have any money waste, what of it! But until that I suppose the little taxpayer must fea fl 5 Esk i telephone operator, really don’t have to to crash the films. eee With U. 8. gold well buried in are working as bef Oe ae eee